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of 1605. According to Fraser, it was an event that did happen (and was not fabricated by the existing government, as argued by what she refers to as 'No-Plotters' in subsequent historiography) though its precise nature and significance is open to historical debate. Fraser argues that there was indeed
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She also argues that few of the facts surrounding the case are unambiguous or beyond discussion, drawing in 653 references citing in excess of 276 sources to prove that multiple aspects of the plot are in fact shrouded in mystery and competing claims to authenticity. As one example, she favours the
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Fraser's opinion is that the plot represented an act of political terrorism, based on her definition of it as being "the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong". An alternative categorisation is that it was in fact an attempted political coup d'état which did not aim to damage the pre-existing
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Fraser is sympathetic towards the Catholic gentry who practiced their religion in the presence of discriminatory legislation under the rule of
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warning the Catholic Lord Monteagle to avoid Parliament on the day of the plot, rather than another figure such as
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a plot, though it was rather different in type and details from the one described by a contemporary such as
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political establishment but instead to usurp and replace it.
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was responsible for the authorship of the anonymous
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ISBN
0-297-81348-X
Antonia Fraser
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Gunpowder Plot
Sir Edward Coke
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Monteagle letter
Francis Tresham
Elizabeth I
James I
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605
ISBN
978-0297857938
"Was the Gunpowder Plot Terrorism?"
"The Gunpowder Plot: Filling in the gaps"
"BOOKS: Treasonable behaviour"
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1996 non-fiction books
Gunpowder Plot
History books about the 17th century

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