In the eighteenth century, the Catholics of England lacked many basic freedoms under the law: they could not serve in political office, buy or inherit land, or

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The Papist Represented situates eighteenth-century literature within the history and culture of the English Catholic community and its interactions with the nat

This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of essays addressing aspects of the history of t