God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpower Plot, (Paperback)

from dellena

Excellent book about Elizabeth I's persecution of England's Catholics. The author painted a vivid picture of what the "Secret Priests" suffered in their attempt to serve the spiritual needs of the Catholics in England. You might also like "Shadowplay" which outlines Shakespeare's hidden messages ...

from john257hopper

A very well researched and balanced account of the activities of Catholic priests in the England of Elizabeth I and James I. This illustrates the horror and tension of the secret lives Catholic priests - and lay Catholics - were forced to live, and the terrible penalties that awaited them. It als...

from coffee.is.yum

How can I review an in-depth 400 page masterpeice? I will not be able to accurately convey the significance of this book. It is intriguing the way Hogge jumps back and forth between the interconnecting lives of England. No character ever just "appears" in the plot of the book. She recounts the li...

from billiecat

A good history of the Reformation in Elizabethan and Stuart England. The suppression of Catholicism and the underground history that resulted are little known, but this book shows the transformation from Catholic to Protestant England was not an overnight occurrence, nor an immediate success. Hog...

from dellena

Excellent book about Elizabeth I's persecution of England's Catholics. The author painted a vivid picture of what the "Secret Priests" suffered in their attempt to serve the spiritual needs of the Catholics in England. You might also like "Shadowplay" which outlines Shakespeare's hidden messages ...