The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious PersecutionJohn Bloundelle-BurtonOmniClassics · Literature
The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution
John Bloundelle-BurtonA young Englishman's inheritance draws him into family secrets and the persecution of French Protestants.
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About the book
The Princesse de Rochebazon approaches death surrounded by the ceremonial deference due to her rank and apparent piety. Her English nephew Martin Ashurst is summoned into this world of wealth, religious authority, and carefully guarded memories. What he learns about the past complicates the fortune and obligations awaiting him. Bloundelle-Burton then places his personal search within the conflicts of Louis XIV's France and the Camisard resistance, where a declaration of faith can expose a person to punishment. The romance joins questions of descent and inheritance to the moral problem of persecution carried out in the name of religion. Its sympathetic alignment with the persecuted shapes the historical portrayal, while rescue, concealment, and divided loyalties give the larger conflict an immediate human scale.
- Religious persecution
- Inheritance and hidden history
- Conscience against authority
Why read it
The contrast between the princess's public sanctity and the secrets surrounding her legacy establishes the book's concern with power concealed by piety.
English D. Appleton and Company edition of 1898
Contents and reading sections
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Section 11
- Section 12
- Section 13
- Section 14
- Section 15
- Section 16
- Section 17
- Section 18
- Section 19
- Section 20
- Section 21
- Section 22
- Section 23
- Section 24
- Section 25
- Section 26
- Section 27
- Section 28
- Section 29
- Section 30
- Section 31
- Section 32
- Section 33
- Section 34
- Section 35
- Section 36
- Section 37
- Section 38
- Section 39
- Section 40
- Section 41
- Section 42
- Section 43