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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4 (Hardcover)
Caroline Bowden, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder, James E. Kelly, Richard G Williams, Carmen M. Mangion, …
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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 6 (Hardcover)
Caroline Bowden, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder, James E. Kelly, Richard G Williams, Carmen M. Mangion, …
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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and
queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of
Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina
Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies,
concentrating on the later Stuart queens from the restoration of
King Charles II (who married Catherine of Braganza in 1662) until
the death of Maria Clementina Sobieska in 1735, who was married to
James Francis Edward Stuart, the titular King James III, otherwise
known as the Old Pretender. It showcases these women’s
roles as queen consorts and as ruling queens in Britain and Europe,
and reveals how their positions allowed them to act as
power-brokers, diplomats, patrons, and religious trendsetters
during their lifetimes. It also explores their impact in early
modern Britain and Europe by assessing their influence in religion,
political culture, and the promotion of patronage.
The first general study of different attitudes to conformity and
the political and cultural significance of the resulting consensus
on what came to be regarded as orthodox. The different ways in
which people expressed `conformity' or `nonconformity' to the 1559
settlement of religion in the English church have generally been
treated separately by historians: Catholic recusancy and occasional
conformity; Protestant ministerial subscription to the canons and
articles of the Church of England; the innovations made by
avant-garde conformist clerics to the early Stuart Church; and
conformist support for the prayer book in the 1640s. This is the
first book to look across the board at what was politically
important about conformity, aiming to assess how different
attitudes to conformity affected what was regarded as orthodox or
true religion in the English Church: that is, the political and
cultural significance of the ways in which one could obey or
disobey the law governing the Church. The introduction places the
articles in the context of the recent historiography of the late
Tudor and early Stuart Church. PETER LAKE is Professor of History,
Princeton University; MICHAEL QUESTIER is Senior Research Fellow,
St Mary's Strawberry Hill. Contributors: ALEXANDRA WALSHAM, MICHAEL
QUESTIER, PAULINE CROFT, KENNETH FINCHAM, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER
LAKE, ANDREW FOSTER, NICHOLAS TYACKE, DAVID COMO, JUDITH MALTBY.
New biography of a Catholic martyr exploring the complicated and
controversial story of her demise. >
All Hail to the Archpriest revisits the debates and disputes known
collectively in the literature on late sixteenth and early
seventeenth century England as the 'Archpriest controversy'. Peter
Lake and Michael Questier argue that this was an extraordinary
instance of the conduct of contemporary public politics and that,
in its apparent strangeness, it is in fact a guide to the ways in
which contemporaries negotiated the unstable later Reformation
settlement in England. The published texts which form the core of
the arguments involved in this debate survive, as do several caches
of manuscript material generated by the dispute. Together they tell
us a good deal about the aspirations of the writers and the
networks that they inhabited. They also allow us to retell the
progress of the dispute both as a narrative and as an instance of
contemporary public argument about topics such as the increasingly
imminent royal succession, late Elizabethan puritanism, and the
function of episcopacy. Our contention is that, if one takes this
material seriously, it is very hard to sustain standard accounts of
the accession of James VI in England as part of an almost seamless
continuity of royal government, contextualised by a virtually
untroubled and consensus-based Protestant account of the
relationship between Church and State. Nor is it possible to
maintain that by the end of Elizabeth's reign the fraction of the
national Church, separatist and otherwise, which regarded itself or
was regarded by others as Catholic, had been driven into
irrelevance.
Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the
contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics,
during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth
century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing
of its own history. Prosecutions of Catholics under the existing
law and via new legislation produced a great deal of documentation
which tells us much about contemporary politics that we could not
garner from any other source. The intention here is to locate the
narratives of persecution inside the context of the 'mainstream'
history of the period from which, for the most part, they have been
routinely excluded but out of which they partly emerged. In that
respect, this is the history of the post-Reformation Church and
State with the politics (of violence) put back. This volume takes
as its starting point the magnum opus of Bishop Richard Challoner,
his Memoirs of Missionary Priests, and it works backwards from that
book into the period that Challoner describes. Historian Michael
Questier seeks to reassemble as far as possible the historical
jigsaw puzzle on which Challoner laboured but which he could not
complete, thinking about the implications for our view of the
post-Reformation and of the way in which Challoner and others
described the Catholic experience of in/tolerance.
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.
Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 revisits
what used to be regarded as an entirely 'mainstream' topic in the
historiography of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries - namely, the link between royal dynastic politics and
the outcome of the process usually referred to as 'the
Reformation'. As everyone knows, the principal mode of transacting
so much of what constituted public political activity in the early
modern period, and especially of securing something like political
obedience if not exactly stability, was through the often
distinctly un-modern management of the crown's dynastic rights, via
the line of royal succession and in particular through matching
into other royal and princely families. Dynastically, the states of
Europe resembled a vast sexual chess board on which the trick was
to preserve, advance, and then match (to advantage) one's own most
powerful pieces. This process and practice were, obviously, not
unique to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But the changes
in religion generated by the discontents of western Christendom in
the Reformation period made dynastic politics ideologically fraught
in a way which had not been the case previously, in that certain
modes of religious thought were now taken to reflect on, critique,
and hinder this mode of exercising monarchical authority, sometimes
even to the extent of defining who had the right to be king or
queen.
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