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God's traitors : terror and faith in Elizabethan England / Jessie Childs.

Author: Childs, Jessie, 1976-

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Descriptionxxiv, 443 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 24 cm

Note:Author -- Map -- Family tree -- Principal characters -- Introduction -- Prelude: Calm before Campion -- Part 1: William And Henry: -- Enterprise is begun -- To be a perfect Catholic -- Lying lips -- Worldly woes -- Refuse of the world -- Flibbertigibbets -- Atheistical Anthony Babington's complotment -- Lambs to the slaughter -- Part 2: Eleanor And Anne: -- Widow and the virgin -- Fright and rumor -- Mrs Brooksby's household -- Virgo becomes Virago -- Hurly burly -- Hot holy ladies -- Part 3: Eliza: -- Brazen-faced bravados -- Assy reprobateness -- Long John with the little beard -- St Peter's net -- Part 4: Powder Treason: -- This stinking king -- Desperate attempts -- Quips and quiddities -- Strange and unlooked for letters -- In the hole -- Two ghosts -- That woman -- Yours forever -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references( pages 407-419) and index.



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