God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
- ISBN-10
- 0199392358
- ISBN-13
- 9780199392353
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 443
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Jessie Childs
Description
Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.
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