The first full-scale account of the English Catholic Church in modern times, this study describes the issues and the individuals at the heart of Catholic affairs during a period when Emancipation, Irish immigration, elucidating how conversions radically changed the nature and role of the Church in English society. Here, Norman shows how the 19th-century English Catholics finally established their first secure base since the Reformation by careful adaptation, successful financing and, above all, by the force of spiritual re-awakening.
- ISBN10 0198226896
- ISBN13 9780198226895
- Publish Date 1 March 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English