Catholic faith had a strong impact on Hilaire Belloc’s works. One of Belloc’s most famous statements was ‘the faith is Europe and Europe is the faith’. This book presents Belloc’s interpretation of European history through Catholic prism.
Europe and Faith
What Was the Roman Empire?
What Was the Church in the Roman Empire?
What Was the ‘Fall’ of the Roman Empire?
The Beginning of the Nations
What Happened in Britain?
The Dark Ages
The Middle Ages
What Was the Reformation?
The Defection of Britain
Survivals and New Arrivals
The Two Cultures
Survivals
The Main Opposition
New Arrivals
The Opportunity
About the author
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870 – 1953) was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910.
