The reconstruction of the Church of Ireland : Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian reforms, 1633-1641 / John McCafferty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCafferty, John, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of Ireland--History--17th century.

Church of Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry. This 2007 study, which is centred on Bramhall, examines how these three men embarked on a policy for the established Church which represented not only a break with a century of reforming tradition but which also sought to make the tiny Irish Church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms. Dr McCafferty shows how accompanying canonical changes were explicitly implemented for notice and eventual adoption in England and Scotland. However within eight years the experiment was blown apart and reconstruction denounced as subversive. Wentworth, Laud and Bramhall faced consequent disgrace, trial, death or exile.

Contents:

Prologue: Ireland's English reformation

Raising up the Church of Ireland: John Bramhall and the beginnings of reconstruction, 1633-1635

English codes and confession for Ireland, 1633-1636

The bishops in the ascendant, 1635-1640

Enforcing the new order, 1635-1640

The downfall of reconstruction, 1640-1641

Conclusion: reconstruction as reformation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-260) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17311-6

1-281-08618-5

9786611086183

0-511-34828-2

1-139-13004-8

0-511-35101-1

0-511-49590-0

0-511-34925-4

0-511-35011-2

OCLC:

476118363