Assignment Consider the reasons for changing attitudes within governmental and political circles in England and Ireland towards Irish Roman Catholics, and assess the role Catholics played in that process. Response There were several reasons for the changing attitudes within governmental and political circles, both in England and Ireland, towards Irish Roman Catholics, and the role played by Catholics in that process was significant. ... As is evident through this particular instance, there was a negative governmental and political attitude toward Irish Roman Catholics as regards the amassing...

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Jerome observed the violent disintegration of Greco-Roman civilization. ... In 382 Jerome returned to Rome, where his reputation as a Biblical scholar grew, and where, observing the last, decadent stages of the Roman Empire, Jerome reaffirmed his commitment to monasticism and asceticism. Some biographers of Jerome have claimed that he assisted Pope Damasus, and that, in the Roman hierarchy, he was to have directly succeeded him. However, Jerome's own writings suggest that he played a less prominent role in the ecclesiastical council. ... Jerome's letters and accounts of Church contro...

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