The Popes and Britain: A History of Rule, Rupture and Reconciliation
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784534935 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stella Fletcher is an associate fellow at the Centre for the Study of Renaissance at Warwick University. She has taught at the universities of Manchester and Liverpool and at King Alfred’s College, Winchester. She is the author of Cardinal Wolsey: A Life in Renaissance Europe.
She is the author of Cardinal Wolsey: A Life in Renaissance Europe. About the Author Stella Fletcher is an associate fellow at the Centre for the Study of Renaissance at Warwick University. . She has taught at the universities of Manchester and Liverpool and at King Alfred’s College, Winchester
In the high medieval period, popes suffered opposition and attempted deposition at the hands of emperors, but England's King John placed his kingdom under papal overlordship, compounding his villainy in Protestant eyes. This was confirmed when eighteenth-century Britain emerged as a major power and its kings acquired Catholic subjects around the globe. Thereafter, assertions of French nationalism at Rome's expense made England and Scotland appear as useful potential allies against Europe's strongest state. Rome's perspective was always considerably wider and the popes' view of Britain was almost invariably positive. When both kingdoms broke with Rome in the sixteenth century it was something of a sideshow in comparison with Spain's political dominance in the Italian peninsula. For its part, the Church in Scotland was recognized by the popes as a "special daughter" of the H