Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England Essays -- European Europe Hi

Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century EnglandFebruary hath twenty-eight DaysRouze, Protestants, the Year of Wonders gone,Great George is now build upd on the ThroneA Mighty Prince, by deity for us prepard,Us to preserve from Dangers greatly feardFrom popery the Devils great Master Fear,Where Men are Slaves, and Priests their Gods do eat . . . (Mullan and Reid 2000, 173) This poem, published in John Partridges almanac Merlinus Liberatus for 1717, shows the common feeling amongst the English Protestants towards Catholics. The term Popery was actually a hostile term for anything relating to Catholicism (Popery). Although many other countries in europium were moving toward more modern, secular governments, the English were not prepared to allow go of old prejudices so easily. One of the problems between Protestants and Catholics in England was that the self-image of the Protestant elite comprised not only religious doctrine and providential history, exclusively consti tutional theory and a concern for cultural and economic returns the Catholic case represented a challenge in to each one of these areas (McBride 2003). During the eighteenth century, Protestants in England felt that they had endured persecution from the Catholics and so justified their resentment and intolerance. This thinking can be seen in anti-Catholic literature published during this period. The Kalendar, of the Cruelties of the Papists to Protestants also from 1717, reports July. Altho the persist in this month was hot, yet the Persecution of poor Protestants by the Papists was much hotter, as you may see by following List of Martyrs who underwent fiery Trials, because they would not turn Papists and ... ... 1882.MacCaffrey, Rev. James. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution. History of the Catholic Church, 2000. cited November 19, 2003. Available from homo Wide vane (http//catholicity.elcore.net/MacCaffery/HCCRFR2_Chapter%2005.html)McBride, Ian. The Language of Liberty 1660-1822 Anti-Catholicism in 18th-Century England and Catholicism in a Protestant Kingdom. History Today, 2003. cited November 18, 2003 Available from World Wide Web (http//www.historytoday.com/index.cfm?articleid=16961)Mullen, John and Christopher Reid, Ed. Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 2000.Popery. Oxford English Dictionary online, 2000. cited on November 17, 2003. Oxford University Press, 1989.Woloch, Isser. Eighteenth-Century Europe impost and Progress, 1715-1789. Norton and Company Press New York, 1982.