Post-Reformation England was jittery with fears of a Catholic revival. Sir Francis Walsingham, the spymaster and priest-hunter at the court of Elizabeth I, regarded Jesuits as a sinister sect involved in popish attempts to dethrone his patron-monarch. Spain’s ill-fated attack … Continue reading (FT) A Review of ”˜God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England’, by Jessie Childs