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Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:42 pm to CatFan81
Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:42 pm to CatFan81
God's Traitors
It's about "Elizabethan" Age England and Queen Elizabeth the 1st using her absolute power and adopting Protestantism as the official religion of England. She ordered Catholics be rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured until they renounced their beliefs. If they refused, they were executed.
I'm 58 pages in.
Pretty good so far. You always hear about the Spanish Inquisition with Catholics, but this book has given great insight into the unfathomable and often brutal extremes the queen took to "conform" her subjects.
It's about "Elizabethan" Age England and Queen Elizabeth the 1st using her absolute power and adopting Protestantism as the official religion of England. She ordered Catholics be rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured until they renounced their beliefs. If they refused, they were executed.
I'm 58 pages in.
Pretty good so far. You always hear about the Spanish Inquisition with Catholics, but this book has given great insight into the unfathomable and often brutal extremes the queen took to "conform" her subjects.
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Posted on 5/30/15 at 2:49 pm to memphisplaya
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It's about "Elizabethan" Age England and Queen Elizabeth the 1st using her absolute power and adopting Protestantism as the official religion of England. She ordered Catholics be rounded up, imprisoned, and tortured until they renounced their beliefs. If they refused, they were executed.
The one who was a bastard about this stuff was her daddy. Henry VIII. He was more about stealing the wealth of the church in England because his government was broke from his own lavish living and wars of aggression. Would shut down monasteries just to steal their wealth. Really hurt is common folk though because most of the "hospitals" of the age were in monasteries. This also included any and all aid to the poor, which was almost non existant.
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