Stella Fletcher

The Popes and Britain (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Rule, Rupture and Reconciliation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast, Rome's perspective was always considerably wider and its view of Britain was almost invariably positive, especially in comparison to medieval emperors, who made and unmade popes, and post-medieval Frenchmen, who treated popes with contempt. As the twenty-first-century papacy looks ever more firmly beyond Europe, this new history examines political, diplomatic and cultural relations between the popes and Britain from their vague origins, through papal overlordship of England, the Reformation and the process of repairing that breach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786721563
• Artikelnr.: 55414551

Autorenporträt

Dr Stella Fletcher has taught for the Continuing Education departments of the universities of Bath, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. She is currently Associate Fellow of the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Her publications include the Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe and a history of the archbishops of Canterbury, The Mitre and the Crown (with Dominic Aidan Bellenger).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. I Follow Peter 2. Papal Monarchs and their Subjects 3. Rome, Capital of the World? 4. Of Swords and Roses5. Converging Interests 6. 'God Bless our Pope, the Great, the Good' 7. From Hard Choices to Soft Power

Rezensionen

The most striking features of this text are these: its truly remarkable scope and its ability discern relatively coherent narratives across more than a millennium and a half. It is, therefore, an extremely welcome addition to scholarship on the relationships of the popes in the already rich year ... [a] truly excellent work. It tells a fascinating and little understood story, which will be of interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike. The Popes and Britain should be read by everyone interested in the history of the church in the Atlantic archipelago. Church History