Faith and Treason
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Faith and Treason by Antonia Fraser
In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the Parliamentary session. Though the charismatic Catholic, Robert Catesby, was the group's leader, it was the devout Guy Fawkes who emerged as its most famous member, as he was the one who was captured and who revealed under torture the names of his fellow plotters. In the aftermath of their arrests, conditions grew worse for English Catholics, as legal penalties against them were stiffened and public sentiment became rabidly intolerant.
In a narrative that reads like a gripping detective story, Antonia Fraser has untangled the web of religion, politics, and personalities that surrounded that fateful night of November 5. And, in examining the lengths to which individuals will go for their faith, she finds in this long-ago event a reflection of the religion-inspired terrorism that has produced gunpowder plots of our own time.
Love and Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette (which was adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola), The Wives of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Faith and Treason: The Tale of the Gunpowder Plot, and Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? are among Antonia Fraser's numerous worldwide bestselling historical writings. She's also the author of the book Do You Have to Go? She has won the Wolfson Award for History, the Norton Medlicott Medal of the British Historical Association in 2000, and the Enid McLeod Literary Prize of the Franco-British Society. In 2011, she was named a Dame of the British Empire for her contributions to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385471909 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385471904 |
| Title | Faith and Treason |
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1997-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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