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Posted: May 14 2007 at 2:23pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G

That's the question Alice Hogge tries to answer in her book God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot. This is a very readable (probably high school reading level) text about Elizabethan England and the men and women who tried to reinstate Catholicism in England. It really is a great read (altho I don't like the jumpiness of the text, that is, it's not written purely chronologically) and would make a great spine for studying the reformation and Elizabethan Era Europe!

Another great one is Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy.

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Sound like great books.

My dad has the second one. Stripping of the Altars. I've glanced at the pictures in it. How sad to have destroyed such beauty. I'd like to read it and I think I'll borrow it the next time I visit in a few weeks .

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Mary, how do you find the time to read these huge books? Do you knit & read at the same time ?!

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BrendaPeter wrote:
Mary, how do you find the time to read these huge books? Do you knit & read at the same time ?!
Actually, YES ! I also don't watch much TV and can stay up much past my little ones (waiting up for my big ones !)

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