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Whores of Babylon : Catholicism, gender, and seventeenth-century print culture /

In the seventeenth century, the largely Protestant nation of England was preoccupied with its Catholic subjects. They inspired more prolific and harsher criticism and more elaborate attempts at legal regulation than did any other minority group. To understand this phenomenon, Frances E. Dolan probes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dolan, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. "Home-Bred Enemies": Imagining Catholics
  • 2. Searching the Bed: Jacobean Anti-Catholicism and the Scandal of Heterosociality
  • 3. The Command of Mary: Marian Devotion, Henrietta Maria's Intercessions, and Catholic Motherhood
  • 4. "The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of": Elizabeth Cellier, Popish Plots, and Print
  • Afterword
  • Index.