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Article: Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England
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- The Catholic Historical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Catholic University of America Press Oct 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England. By D. G. Paz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1992. Pp. xiv, 332. $42.50.)
Some historians of the English Reformation are of the opinion that anti-Catholicism was more deeply entrenched in English society by the end of the sixteenth century than devotion to Protestantism. Equally, a new generation of historians working on the eighteenth century have shown that anti-Catholicism was alive and well even in the age of Enlightenment. It is the argument of this book that anti-Catholicism remained a powerful cultural force in English society at least until 1875 when it began to shift to the margins. What distinguishes this treatment of ...