Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

by Christopher Highley

Modern scholars, fixated on the "winners" in England's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious struggles, have too readily assumed the inevitability of Protestantism's historical triumph and have uncritically accepted the reformers' own rhetorical construction of themselves as embodiments of an authentic Englishness. Christopher Highley interrogates this narrative by examining how Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early seventeenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199533407
• ISBN13: 9780199533404
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages