William Davage, Author at Catholic Herald

William Davage

Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War, by Terry Tastard

June 02, 2023

Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War Terry Tastard Bloomsbury, £85, 216 pages Those who learned their history from the Ladybird books (and subsequently had to learn something different) may remember the cover of the volume on Florence Nightingale. She stands calm, authoritative, sympathetic, a national heroine, holding a lantern: the epitome of compassion. “The lady

Defenders of the Faith: The British Monarchy, Religion and the Next Coronation

January 02, 2023

Catherine Pepinster Hodder and Stoughton, £25, 352 pages On October 11, 1521 Leo X con-ferred the title Fidei Defensor on Henry VIII for his pious refutation – in his book Asserto septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum – of the troublesome German’s radical “95 Theses”. When Henry’s marital requirements occasioned his own break with Rome, he

Seeing Spain’s history through art

August 12, 2022

Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500-1700 Jeremy Robbins Reaktion Books, £25, 464 pages Spain’s Golden Age spanned the reigns of five monarchs which form-ed a “lineage of piety”: Charles I (Charles V when Holy Roman Emperor), Philip II, Philip III, Philip IV, ending with the death in 1700 of Charles II, the “Bewitched”,

A requiem for a Church

May 02, 2022

A People’s Church: A History of the Church of England by Jeremy Morris Profile Books, £30, 480 pages The defining and unhappy image of the response of the Church of England to the Covid-19 pandemic was that of the Archbishop of Canterbury celebrating Holy Communion on his kitchen table at Lambeth Palace. It was Easter

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