It is extremely plausible that this was the way of it since we are aU too weU aware of the terrorist answer to seemingly insoluble poUtical problems in our own time. She foUows in essentials Mark NichoUs's thesis as expounded in Investigating Gunpowder Plot (1991) and also an unpublished manuscript by the lateW. It is safe to prophesy that there wUl never be a last word on what Joel Hurstfield once described as a "non-event" but it is to be regretted that one cannot recommend this as an outstanding milestone on the way.The book refers to a "no plot" faction, but no one denies a plot.The question remains, whose was it and of what kind? Fraser reteUs the traditional story of the plot as the concoction of a group of disaffected CathoUcs driven to desperation and despaU by persecution and seeing no other remedy.The dark hero of the piece was dashing Robert Catesby, whose zeal inflamed and led the rest to aU-time disaster for the Catholic cause. It has been weU received by reviewers generaUy m England who usuaUy reveal Uttle knowledge about the plot except from what they read here.
xxxv, 347.Ä20.00.) This is a handsome production, weU iUustrated and indexed, based on good sources, and presented Ui a prose at once elegant and readable, which we would expect by now from this author. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS347 The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605.
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