Professor Peter Lake, Professor Michael Questier

The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England

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Produktbeschreibung

Thoroughly updated with newly discovered archival material, this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow demonstrates that the complicated and controversial life story of Margaret Clitherow is not as unique as it was once thought. In fact, Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that her case was comparable to those of other separatist females who were in trouble with the law at the same time, in particular Anne Foster, also of York. In doing so, they shed new light on the fascinating stories of these unruly women whose fates have been excluded from Catholic and women narratives of the period. The result is a work which considers the questions of religious sainthood and martyrdom through a gender lens, providing important insights into the relationship between society, the state and the church in Britain during the 16th century. This is a major contribution to our understanding of both English Catholicism and the Protestant regime of the Elizabethan period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781350049260
• ISBN-10: 1350049263
• Artikelnr.: 54853385

Autorenporträt

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, USA. From 1993-2009 he was Professor of History at Princeton University, USA. He is the author of many books including The Boxmaker's Revenge and a forthcoming volume on Shakespeare's history plays.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface to the Second Edition Preface Abbreviations 1. The
Controversial Mrs. Clitherow 2. The Radicalisation of the Mid-Elizabethan
Catholics 3. Mrs. Clitherow, her Catholic Household and her Catholic
Enemies 4. The Quarrels of the Catholic Community 5. Recusancy and its
Discontents 6. Thomas Bell and his Enemies 7. Christianity sans Eglise: The
Religion of the Heart among Catholics and Puritans 8. Fainthearted
Catholics and Real Catholics: Mrs. Clitherow and the Local Politics of
Conformity 9. The Reckoning: Arrest, Trial and Execution 10. Mad, Bad and
Dangerous to Know? 11. Appealing to the Court of Public Opinion 12.
Endgame: From Life to the Quisling 15. Between Resistance and Compromise?:
Thomas Bell's Revenge and the 1591 Proclamation 16. Thomas Bell Changes
Sides 17. Acting on Information Received 18. Reading against the Grain; or
What Thomas Bell had Really been Doing in Lancashire 19. Clitherow
Vindicated: The Church under the Cross and the Resort to the Public 20.
Thomas Bell and the Politics of Failure 21. Mrs. Clitherow Entirely
Vindicated as the Epitome of Catholic Order Aftermath Bibliography Index