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God's Traitors Jessie Childs

God's Traitors By Jessie Childs

God's Traitors by Jessie Childs

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Summary

Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. This book exposes the tensions and insecurities masked by the cult of Gloriana. It is a story of courage and frailty, repression and reaction and the terrible consequences when religion and politics collide.

God's Traitors Summary

God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs

*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize*
*Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction*
*A Sunday Times Book of the Year*
*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year*
*A Times Book of the Year*
*An Observer Book of the Year*

The Catholics of Elizabethan England did not witness a golden age. Their Mass was banned, their priests were outlawed, their faith was criminalised. In an age of assassination and Armada, those Catholics who clung to their faith were increasingly seen as the enemy within. In this superb history, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.

God's Traitors is a tale of dawn raids and daring escapes, stately homes and torture chambers, ciphers, secrets and lies. From clandestine chapels and side-street inns to exile communities and the corridors of power, it exposes the tensions and insecurities masked by the cult of Gloriana. Above all, it is a timely story of courage and frailty, repression and reaction and the terrible consequences when religion and politics collide.

God's Traitors Reviews

A triumph of story-telling, backed by first-rate research -- Antonia Fraser
Absorbing, exciting and relevant -- Ben MacIntyre * The Times Book of the Week *
Richly packed, absorbing... A parade of extraordinary characters -- Simon Callow * Guardian *
Thrilling * New Statesman *
God's Traitors, with its crisp prose and punctilious scholarship, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism and holiness in Tudor England... It is little short of a triumph -- Ian Thomson * Financial Times *
Beautifully written... Hollywood could not have made it up -- Professor JJ Scarisbrick
Brilliant * Wall Street Journal *
Truly excellent... God's Traitors crosses the divide between popular and academic history. It raises issues of some real historical importance -- Michael Questier * Spectator *
This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age -- Dan Jones * Sunday Times *
Excellent... An engaging history of English papists, filled with memorable episodes * The Economist *
In the quality of her research and sensitive handling of issues that remain raw to this day, Jessie Childs succeeds in evoking 'the lived experience of anti-Catholicism' as few have done before... Childs's language is lively and inventive... By picturing Elizabethan recusants in all their complexity, Jessie Childs has enabled them to speak for themselves at last -- John Cooper * Literary Review *
Superb and groundbreaking... It isn't possible in the space of a review to do justice to the breadth and depth of Childs' research and insight; but they illuminate the entire landscape of English life...a superlative, flawlessly written book... Childs' description of an exorcism at Lord Vaux's house in Hackney...is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever read -- Matthew Lyons, author of The Favourite

About Jessie Childs

Jessie Childs was born in London in 1976 and read history at Brasenose College, Oxford, where she took a first. Her first book Henry VIII's Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Her second book God's Traitors was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize, and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, 2015.
Jessie frequently appears on TV and radio, and has written and reviewed for many publications, including the Telegraph, the Guardian, Literary Review, Standpoint and the Times Literary Supplement. She is one of the judges for the 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History.
She lives in Hammersmith, London, with her husband and two daughters.
www.jessiechilds.com

Additional information

GOR005602677
9781847921567
1847921566
God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
Jessie Childs
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
20140306
464
Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015 (UK) Short-listed for Longman-History Today Book Prize 2014 (UK) Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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