The trials of Margaret Clitherow : persecution, martyrdom and the politics of sanctity in Elizabethan England / Peter Lake and Michael Questier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Peter, author.

Questier, Michael C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clitherowe, Margaret, Saint, -1586.

Clitherowe, Margaret.

Clitherowe, Margaret, Saint, -1586--Trials, litigation, etc.

Catholic Church--History--16th century.

Catholic Church.

History.

Martyrdom--Christianity.

Martyrdom.

Persecution--England--History--16th century.

Persecution.

Church and state--England--History--16th century.

Church and state.

Church and state--Catholic Church.

England.

Church and state--Catholic Church--History--16th century.

England--Church history--16th century.

Church history.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Trials, litigation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 268 pages, 12 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

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

Contents:

List of plates

Acknowledgements

Preface to the second edition

Preface

Note on the text

List of abbreviations. Part 1. The controversial Mrs. Clitherow. The radicalization of the mid-Elizabethan Catholics. Mrs. Clitherow, her Catholic household and her (both Protestant and catholic) enemies. The quarrels of the English Catholic community : Recusancy and its discontents

Thomas Bell and his critics

Christianity sans Eglise: the religion of the heart among Catholics and puritans

Faint-hearted Catholics and real Catholics: Mrs. Clitherow and the local politics of conformity. The reckoning: arrest, trial and execution : Mad, bad and dangerous to know?

Arrest

Trial

Awaiting death in the prison

Appealing to the court of public opinion

Endgame: from life to death. Part 2. Mrs. Clitherow and the English Catholic community after 1586 : After the execution

The tyrant and the quisling

Between resistance and compromise? Thomas Bell's revenge and the 1591 Proclamation : Thomas Bell changes sides

Acting on information received

Reading against the grain, or what Thomas Bell had really been doing in Lancashire. Mrs. Clitherow vindicated? : The Church under the cross and the resort to the public

Thomas Bell and the politics of failure

Mrs. Clitherow entirely vindicated as the epitome of Catholic order. Aftermath: the English Catholic community tears itself apart in the Archpriest Controversy. Epilogue: Margaret Clitherow and the English Reformation. Notes

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previous edition: London: Continuum, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350049277

1350049271

9781350049260

1350049263

OCLC:

1103978027