James Sharpe is Professor of History at University of York.
A reminder that such religiously inspired terrorism is part of the
history of the modern West.
*New York Times*
[Sharpe's] lively short book is a compressed cultural history of
Guy Fawkes Day...There is plenty of interest in his analysis of the
changing character of a major popular festival.
*New York Review of Books*
James Sharpe has written an engaging essay on the changing meaning
over the centuries of Guy Fawkes Day, the commemoration on November
5 of England's deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot...Sharpe's
enjoyable book traces the different ways in which the date has been
celebrated between the seventeenth century and modern times.
*New York Review of Books*
Sharpe's readable little book sheds light on the history, myth and
fiction surrounding the conspiracy and its enduring marks in the
culture today.
*Catholic News Service*
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