Volume 24, Number 1 · February 3, 1977
The True History of the Catholics in England
By Lawrence Stone
The English Catholic Community 1570-1850
by John Bossy
Oxford University Press, 446 pp., $24.95
The English Catholic community has not hitherto been well served by its historians or publicists. In this century, the reality of a fascinating story has been hopelessly blurred by the romantic pseudo-medievalism of Belloc and Chesterton and, more recently, by the equally misleading nostalgic snobbery of Waugh in Brideshead Revisited.
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