Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was Stater Victor
Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was Stater Victor The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain "Stater tells a complex and convoluted…
Specifikacia Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was Stater Victor
Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was Stater Victor
The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain "Stater tells a complex and convoluted story with absolute clarity. . . . Ingram, National Review "[Stater's] accounts have the compulsively fascinating quality of a true-crime podcast."--Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street JournalIn 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. As a work of historical scholarship, Hoax is terrific."--Robert G.
Their political allies used the fabricated plot as a tool to undermine the ministry of Thomas Lord Danby and replace him themselves. Men like the "Reverend Doctor" Titus Oates and "Captain" William Bedloe parlayed their fantastical tales of Irish ruffians, medical poisoners, and silver bullets into public adulation and government pensions.
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