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

universality in Eighteenth-Century EnglandFebruary hath XXVIII DaysRouze, Protestants, the Year of enquires gone,Great George is now establishd on the sightA Mighty Prince, by God for us prepard,Us to prolong from Dangers hugely 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 side Protestants towards Catholics. The term Popery was actually a hostile term for anything relating to Catholicism (Popery). Although many other countries in Europe were moving toward more modern, secular governments, the English were not prepared to let 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 alone religious doctrine and providential history, but constitutional theory and a concern for cultural and economic improvement the Catholic case delineate a challenge in each of these areas (McBride 2003). During the eighteenth century, Protestants in England entangle that they had endured persecution from the Catholics and so justified their resentment and intolerance. This sentiment 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 Weather in this month was hot, insofar 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 cut Revolution. tarradiddle of the Catholic Church, 2000. cited November 19, 2003. Available from World Wide Web (http//catholicity.elcore.net/MacCaffery/HCCRFR2_Chapter%2005.html)McBride, Ian. The run-in of Liber ty 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 Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789. Norton and Company Press spic-and-span York, 1982.