Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Catholic “Other”

   • Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Geraldine Vaughan

   Pages 1-17

3. Living Together: Catholic Responses to Anti-Catholicism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Catholic Strategies of Resistance to Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century England

      • Luc Borot

      Pages 21-36

   3. Anti-Popery in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: A Scottish Catholic Perspective

      • Clotilde Prunier

      Pages 37-53

   4. Everyday Anti-Catholicism in Early Eighteenth-Century England

      • Carys Brown

      Pages 55-72

4. Hating the Other: The Polemics of Anti-Catholicism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. “The Great Contest Between the Papist and Protestant”: Anti-Catholicism in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

      • Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

      Pages 75-91

   3. “Papists Make a Direct Profession of This Shamefull Sin”: Denouncing Catholic Ignorance in Seventeenth-Century England

      • Sandrine Parageau

      Pages 93-108

   4. Beyond “The General Consent of the Principall Puritans and Jesuits against Kings”: The Rationalist Plea for Resistance in John Milton and Algernon Sidney

      • Christopher Hamel

      Pages 109-125

   5. Through the French Looking Glass: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Protestantism and Anticlericalism. A Study in Doctrines of Hatred at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

      • Valentine Zuber

      Pages 127-142

5. Capitalizing on Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Englishness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. The Scandalous Nun: Anti-Catholic Representations of English Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century

      • Laurence Lux-Sterritt

      Pages 145-161

   3. Joseph Addison, Anti-Catholicism and Politeness

      • Claire Boulard Jouslin

      Pages 163-179

   4. Papal Tyranny on the Stage: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the London Theatres

      • Marc Martinez

      Pages 181-197

   5. Anti-Catholicism and the Rhetoric of Slavery in Irish Writing, c. 1690–1730

      • James Ward

      Pages 199-216

6. The Demise of Anti-Catholicism in the Secularized World?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Anti-Catholicism and the Scottish Middle Class 1800–1914

      • Martin J. Mitchell

      Pages 219-235

   3. Fishing for Controversy: W.S. Kerr and the Demise of Church of Ireland Anti-Catholicism

      • Alan Ford

      Pages 237-254

   4. A New Order in Post-conflict Northern Ireland—The Museum of Orange Heritage

      • Karine Bigand

      Pages 255-272

This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.

• Reformation
• Protestantism
• interconfessional relations
• sectarianism
• religious persecution

“This collection therefore appears to be aimed at scholars and students already acquainted with the historical developments across the period. ... It is indeed a searching and empirically valuable collection of articles which includes some well-documented and persuasive case studies from researchers working across periods and fields.” (Rachel Rogers, Miranda, Vol. 23, 2021)

• Université de Rouen Normandie ERIAC EA4705, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France

  Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

• Institut Universitaire de France, Université de Rouen Normandie GRHis EA3831, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France

  Geraldine Vaughan

Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British Studies at the University of Rouen, France.


Geraldine Vaughan is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Rouen, France.

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