Anti-popery: the Structure of a Prejudice

Lake, Peter

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“…Against the backdrop of financial and diplomatic complexities that ultimately transferred control of the embassy from the Levant Company to the British Crown, Talbot shows that diplomatic accounts of Ottoman personalities, practices, and rituals could be interpreted both positively and negatively and could be used very differently whether in the press, in travel literature, or in the personal correspondence of ambassadors and their wives (such as the Elgins). As Lake (1989; 2006) has argued of prejudice against Puritans and Catholics in the 17th century, stereotypes come from somewhere and material conditions need to be understood in order to account for wildly distorted representations of cultural or religious others. Attention to the political and economic realities of the British and Ottoman Empires in the 18th century will assist literary critics in future explorations of the complex mediations of Anglo‐Muslim relations in print and on the stage.…”

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Anglo‐Muslim relations in 18th‐century literature and culture

Cahill

2020

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An analytical toolkit particular to English constructions of the Ottomans is needed to grapple with representations of Anglo-Muslim relations in the 18th century. That toolkit is a work in progress, but would include recognition of the following: (1) the current state of archival access reinforces a Eurocentric perspective; (2) the relative geopolitical power of England and the Ottoman Empire shifted drastically in the 18th century; (3) the necessity of a strategic post-Saidian theoretical framework; (4) a polemical repertoire of comparison and projection ("Mahometanism") often used stereotypically imagined Muslims as stand-ins for non-Muslim targets; (5) the politics of confessionalization meant that Islam's non-Trinitarian monotheism was a challenge to Anglican authority; and (6) polemical uses of Islam particularly focused on issues of political authority, religious toleration, and women's rights.

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Anglo‐Muslim relations in 18th‐century literature and culture

Cahill

2020

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“… 38 Lake, 1989 and 1982. For example, the second part of the Vox Populi (1624), which represented the Spaniards, especially the “Machiavellian” Spanish Ambassador Gondomar, as plotting to overthrow the Protestant religion in England.…”

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Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

Gianoutsos¹

2017

Renaiss. Q.

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This article provides one of the first studies of two late works by George Chapman, “Pro Vere” (1622) and “A iustification of a strange action of Nero” (1629). Through a close examination of these works, and through situating Chapman’s texts alongside other neglected works of the 1620s that voiced opposition to the Stuart court and kings, the article examines the critical and subversive role that classical history and gendered language played in forging ideological conflict in England during the Stuart period. More broadly, the article seeks to demonstrate the importance of studying imaginative writings for understanding Stuart political culture.

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“…The notion that the entire Catholic faith was built upon duplicity was a strong theme; priests were described as refusing to allow their followers to see the clear light of the gospel through access to God's word. 31 The idea that Catholics were religiously suspect, morally defunct, and politically dangerous was widespread, reinforced through church liturgy and sermons, popular commemorations, and the increasingly wide circulation of print. 32 Had the authors of anti-Catholic tracts entered Coldham Hall, they might have felt somewhat vindicated.…”

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MILITANT CATHOLICISM, INTERCONFESSIONAL RELATIONS, AND THE ROOKWOOD FAMILY OF STANNINGFIELD, SUFFOLK, c. 1689–1737

Brown

2016

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Explanations of local interconfessional relations in post-revolutionary England tend to highlight the role of Catholic quiescence and compromise in allowing Protestants and Catholics to ‘get along’. By examining the interactions of a Catholic family who were far from quiescent in their religious and political practice, this article suggests that these explanations may overemphasize the compromise of religious minorities, obscuring the importance of the wider local context to the shape of interconfessional relations. The subjects of this study, the Rookwoods of Stanningfield, Suffolk, were active in expression of Catholic religion and its political implications. Contrary to patterns suggested elsewhere, the social and economic interactions of this family with their neighbours illustrate that such ardent Catholicism was not enough to prevent cordial relations with local Protestants. The social and economic importance of the Rookwoods within their community is used to make suggestions as to why they were accepted on the local level against a backdrop of wider anti-Catholic polemic. The example of the Rookwoods implies a need to explore the broader factors which shaped the underlying balance of power on a local level before it is possible to understand the nature of compromises that allowed for peaceful co-existence.

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Anti-popery: the Structure of a Prejudice

Cited by 53 publications

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Anglo‐Muslim relations in 18th‐century literature and culture

Anglo‐Muslim relations in 18th‐century literature and culture

Criticizing Kings: Gender, Classical History, and Subversive Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

MILITANT CATHOLICISM, INTERCONFESSIONAL RELATIONS, AND THE ROOKWOOD FAMILY OF STANNINGFIELD, SUFFOLK, c. 1689–1737

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