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2020
- handle: 10670/1.ej9ars
- hal: hal-04336895
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-42882-2_3
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Anti-Catholicism eighteenth-century Scotland penal laws persecution national identity John Geddes George HaySujets proches
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Clotilde Prunier, « 'Anti-Popery in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: A Scottish Catholic Perspective' », HAL-SHS : histoire des religions, ID : 10.1007/978-3-030-42882-2_3
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Anti-catholicism in the British Isles has often been examined from a Protestant standpoint. This chapter seeks to fill a gap by exploring the perspective of Scottish Catholics on the various manifestations of anti-Popery in eighteenth-century Scotland and analysing their assessment of the treatment meted out to them by their Protestant countrymen. Drawing mainly from manuscript sources, it elaborates on two separate outbreaks of Anti-catholicism – in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden and during the campaign against the repeal of the Scottish penal laws in 1778–79 – and investigates the distinction drawn by Catholics between Scottish Presbyterians whose Anti-catholicism was but persecution under another name and the British State which endeavoured to make sure the existing penal laws were not enforced on mere religious grounds and eventually could no longer condone such persecution. As a result, by the late eighteenth century Scottish Catholics secured a place for themselves in British society, thus challenging the Protestant narrative of the Scottish nation.