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Whores of Babylon: Catholicism Gender and Seventeenth Centu
Contributor(s): Dolan, Frances E. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0268025711     ISBN-13: 9780268025717
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
OUR PRICE: $31.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 17th Century
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 305.682
LCCN: 2004026823
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.6" W x 9.14" L (0.83 lbs) 250 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Religious Orientation - Catholic
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends that despite sharing the same blood, origins, and history as their Protestant antagonists, Catholics provoked more prolific and intemperate visual and verbal representation, and more elaborate and sustained legal regulation, than any other marginal group in seventeenth-century England. This careful and thorough study examines legal and literary representations of the Catholic menace during three crises in Protestant/Catholic relations, from the Gunpowder Plot (1605) to the Popish Plot and Meal Tub Plot (1678-80). It also offers the first sustained analysis of the extent to which gender issues informed both Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in the early modern period. Available for the first time in paperback, this book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern England, Catholic history, and gender studies.

Contributor Bio(s): Dolan, Frances E.: - Frances E. Dolan is professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
 
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