Whores of Babylon : : Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture / / Frances E. Dolan.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1999
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 halftones
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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