Whores of Babylon: Catholicism Gender and Seventeenth Centu

by Frances E. Dolan

Book Overview

In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends that despite sharing the same blood, origins, and history as their Protestant antagonists, Catholics provoked more prolific and intemperate visual and verbal representation, and more elaborate and sustained legal regulation, than any other marginal group...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268025711
• ISBN13: 9780268025717
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.1"