The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol I - Endings and New Beginnings, 1530-1640 (Hardcover)

The first volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism explores the period 1530-1640, from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the outbreak of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland. It analyses the efforts to create Catholic communities after the officially implemented change in religion, as well as the start of initiatives that would set the course of British and Irish Catholicism, including the beginning of the missionary enterprise and the formation of a network of exile religious institutions such as colleges and convents. This work explores every aspect of life for Catholics in both islands as they came to grips with the constant changes in religious policies that characterised this 110-year period. Accordingly, there are chapters on music, on literature in the vernaculars, on violence and martyrdom, and on the specifics of the female experience. Anxiety and the challenges of living in religiously mixed societies gave rise to new forms of creativity in religious life which made the Catholic experience much more than either plain continuity or endless endurance. Antipopery, or the extent to which Catholics became a symbolic antitype for Protestants, became in many respects a kind of philosophy about which political life in England, Scotland, and colonised Ireland began to revolve. At the same time the legal frameworks across both Britain and Ireland which sought to restrict, fine, or exclude Catholics from public life are given close attention throughout, as they were the daily exigencies which shaped identity just as much as devotions, liturgy, and directives emanating from the Catholic Reformation then ongoing in continental Europe.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	James E. Kelly (Sweeting Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism) • John McCafferty (Professor of History)
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-884380-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-19-884380-1
Barcode:	9780198843801

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