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[ Fighting the Antichrist ] examines the most relevant events of the century for the creation of the anti-Catholic discourse, paying especial attention both to religious circumstances and to political milestones such as the victory over the Spanish Armada seen by Protestant authors as an expression of God s support to the Queen. Far from simplifying and reducing the complexity of this type of tests, the book . . . faces the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of the works under study and tries to explain them as part of the intricacies of the period. Ana Saez Hidalgo, University of Valladolid, on Spanish language edition

Rameras de Babilonia is the culmination of several years of research in which Leticia Alvarez Recio has studied the articulation of anti-Catholic sentiment in Early Modern England. In this book she approaches the development of this topic throughout the Tudor period, when its most important features and cliches were created and used in a wide variety of discourses. One of the novelties of this study is precisely the type of texts subject to analysis: pamphlets and plays. Disparate though they are in their nature, in their rhetoric, and in the way in which they interact with their audiences, Alvarez Recio manages to demonstrate the connection between them and how they supplement and influence each other in their depiction of anti-Catholic characters. ...Far from simplifying and reducing the complexity of this type of tests, the book Rameras de Babilonia faces the complexities, inconsistencies and paradoxes of the works under study and tries to explain them as part of the intricacies of the period. --Ana Saez Hidalgo, University of Valladolid

[ Fighting the Antichrist ] examines the most relevant events of the century for the creation of the anti-Catholic discourse, paying especial attention both to religious circumstances and to political milestones such as the victory over the Spanish Armada--seen by Protestant authors as an expression of God's support to the Queen. Far from simplifying and reducing the complexity of this type of tests, the book . . . faces the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of the works under study and tries to explain them as part of the intricacies of the period. --Ana Saez Hidalgo, University of Valladolid, on Spanish language edition

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Leticia Alvarez-Recio is a Junior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Seville (Spain). Her publications include Rameras de Babilonia. Historia cultural del anti-catolicismo en la Inglaterra Tudor (Salamanca, 2006) and a number of articles and chapters on sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and history. She is a member of a research team that works on the printed history of Middle English verse romances a project subsidized by a Spanish government grant.

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