Catholic Reformation In Protestant Britain

Author : Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317169246

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Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain by Alexandra Walsham Pdf

The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and for its plantation overseas. It emphasises the reciprocal interaction between Catholicism and anti-Catholicism throughout the period and casts fresh light on the nature of interconfessional relations in a pluralistic society. It argues that persecution and suffering paradoxically both constrained and facilitated the resurgence of the Church of Rome. They presented challenges and fostered internal frictions, but they also catalysed the process of religious identity formation and imbued English, Welsh and Scottish Catholicism with peculiar dynamism. Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing field. Collectively these make a major contribution to our understanding of minority Catholicism and the Counter Reformation in the era after the Council of Trent.

Author : Frank Tallett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826441362

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Catholicism in Britain & France Since 1789 by Frank Tallett Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date analysis of Catholicism in Britain and France, examining various aspects of the faith in the 200 years since the French Revolution. By focusing on two countries whose religious establishement and experience were markedly different, and by adopting a comparative approach, the book is able to offer an unusual perspective on the challenges facing the Catholic church in the modern world and on its impact not only on believers, but also on the two societies as a whole.

Author : Joseph Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : England
ISBN : WISC:89097240279

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The Protestant Reformation in Great Britain by Joseph Clayton Pdf

"A note on authorities": pages 243-245

Author : Ian Hazlett
Publisher : T&T Clark
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117990916

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The Reformation in Britain and Ireland by Ian Hazlett Pdf

This book is a new and wide-ranging introduction to the Reformation throughout the British Isles. Full treatment is given to the fascinating and often very different but interrelated experiences in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This approach is unique. Previous introductions have invariably concentrated on England, with lesser sections on Wales and Scotland, often ignoring Ireland altogether. The book is more than a modern introduction, survey and summary of the Reformation period. Ian Hazlett provides fresh research and critical analysis, which will be of considerable interest to a new generation of scholars and students.The material is written and organized in a highly readable and accessible form. Here is a well-balanced introduction and resource for non-specialists as well as scholars and students.

Author : John Wolffe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137289735

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Protestant-Catholic Conflict from the Reformation to the 21st Century by John Wolffe Pdf

Taking a fresh look at the roots and implications of the enduring major historic fissure in Western Christianity, this book presents new insights into the historical dynamics of Protestant-Catholic conflict while illuminating present-day contexts and suggesting comparisons for approaching other entrenched conflicts in which religion is implicated.

Author : Felicity Heal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199280150

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Reformation in Britain and Ireland by Felicity Heal Pdf

The study of the Reformation in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories. Reformation in Britain and Ireland draws upon the growing genre of writing about British History to construct an innovative narrative of religious change in the four countries/three kingdoms. The text uses a broadly chronological framework to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-Reformation churches; the political crises of the break with Rome; the development of Protestantism and changes in popular religious culture. The tools of conversion - the Bible, preaching and catechising - are accorded specific attention, as is doctrinal change. It is argued that political calculations did most to determine the success or failure of reformation, though the ideological commitment of a clerical elite was also of central significance.

Author : Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030428822

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Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan Pdf

This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : England
ISBN : UIUC:30112055331828

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A History of the Protestant Reformation in England & Ireland by William Cobbett Pdf

Author : John Wolffe
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021886695

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The Protestant Crusade in Great Britain, 1829-1860 by John Wolffe Pdf

A study of the anti-Catholic movement in 19th-century Britain. Catholic emancipation in 1829 was followed by a Protestant backlash, stimulated by the growth of the evangelical movement and of Catholicism, and the political endeavours of Irish and British Tories.

Author : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780281076536

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The English Reformation by Alec Ryrie Pdf

'Masterly' - Eric Metaxas 'Mould-breaking' - John Guy 'A little gem of a book' - Suzannah Lipscomb From the Introduction: ‘There is no such thing as “the English Reformation”. A "Reformation" is a composite event which is only made visible by being framed the right way. It is like a “war”: a label we put onto a particular set of events, while we decide that other – equally violent – acts are not part of that or of any "war". Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English people knew that they were living through an age of religious upheaval, but they did not know that it was "the English Reformation", any more than the soldiers at the battle of Agincourt knew that they were fighting in “the Hundred Years’ War”. . . . ‘Plainly these religious upheavals permanently changed England and, by extension, the many other countries on which English culture has made its mark. There is not, however, a single master narrative of all this turmoil. How could there be? . . . The way you choose to tell the story is governed by what you think is important and what is trivial, by whether there are heroes or villains you want to celebrate or condemn, and by the legacies and lessons which you think matter. Once you have chosen your frame, it will give you the story you want. ‘So this book does not tell "the story" of “the English Reformation”. It tells the stories of six English Reformations, or rather six stories of religious change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The stories are parallel and overlapping, but each has a somewhat different chronological frame, cast of characters and set of pivotal events, and has left a different legacy.’

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521828109

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The Old Enemies by Michael Wheeler Pdf

This wide-ranging, well-illustrated study explores how the ancient divisions between Catholics and Protestants continued in the Victorian age.

Author : Arthur Geoffrey Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Counter-Reformation
ISBN : UOM:39015031602751

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The Counter Reformation by Arthur Geoffrey Dickens Pdf

The reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century was historically as important as the contemporary Protestant Reformation. Though never committed solely to fighting Protestantism, it inevitably also became a Counter Reformation, since it soon faced the threat created by Luther and his successors. The century between the career of Ignatius Loyola and that of Vincent de Paul became a classic age of Catholicism. The lives of its saints, popes and secular champions could hardly be made more fascinating by any novelist. While paying due attention to the great characters, the author also considers the broader political, social and cultural features of the Counter Reformation. A.G. Dickens is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of London.

Author : Alec Ryrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199565726

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Being Protestant in Reformation Britain by Alec Ryrie Pdf

Provides a comprehensive account of what it meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640.

Author : Roy Hattersley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781448182978

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The Catholics by Roy Hattersley Pdf

The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller' The Times Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome – English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalised discrimination. The first book to tell the story of the Catholics in Britain in a single volume, The Catholics includes much previously unpublished information. It focuses on the lives, and sometimes deaths, of individual Catholics – martyrs and apostates, priests and laymen, converts and recusants. It tells the story of the men and women who faced the dangers and difficulties of being what their enemies still call ‘Papists’. It describes the laws which circumscribed their lives, the political tensions which influenced their position within an essentially Anglican nation and the changes in dogma and liturgy by which Rome increasingly alienated their Protestant neighbours – and sometime even tested the loyalty of faithful Catholics. The survival of Catholicism in Britain is the triumph of more than simple faith. It is the victory of moral and spiritual unbending certainty. Catholicism survives because it does not compromise. It is a characteristic that excites admiration in even a hardened atheist.

Author : Henri Daniel-Rops
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Counter-Reformation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041839684

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The Catholic Reformation by Henri Daniel-Rops Pdf