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, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clitherowe, Margaret, -1586.

Clitherowe, Margaret.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2011.

Summary:

The story of Margaret Clitherow represents one of the most important yet troubling events in post-Reformation history. Her trial, execution and subsequent legend have provoked controversy ever since she became a cause celebre in the time of Elizabeth I. Through extensive new research into the contemporary accounts of her arrest and trial the authors have pieced together a new reading of the surrounding events. The result is a work which considers the question of religious sainthood and martyrdom as well as the relationship between society, the state and the Church in Britain during the sixteen

Contents:

Contents; The Radicalization of the Mid-Elizabethan Catholics; The Quarrels of the English Catholic Community; The Reckoning: Arrest, Trial and Execution; Mrs Clitherow and the English Catholic Community after 1586; Thomas Bell's Revenge and the 1591 Proclamation; Epilogue: Margaret Clitherow and the English Reformation; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826431530

0826431534

9781441100924

144110092X

OCLC:

741492904