Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Lake, Peter.

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Questier, Michael.

Description

xix, 244 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

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 sixteenth century. They establish the full ideological significance of the trial and demonstrate that the politics of post-Reformation British society cannot be understood without the wider local, national and international contexts in which they occurred. This is a major contribution to our understanding of both English Catholicism and the Protestant regime of the Elizabethan period. - Publisher.

Subject

Clitherowe, Margaret, Saint, -1586

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-238) and index.

Contents

The Controversial Mrs Clitherow -- The Radicalisation of the mid-Elizabethan Catholics -- Mrs Clitherow, her Catholic household and her Catholic enemies -- The Quarrels of the Catholic Community -- Recusancy and its Discontents -- Thomas Bell and his Enemies -- Christianity sans Eglise : the Religion of the Heart among Catholics and Puritans -- Fainthearted Catholics and Real Catholics : Mrs Clitherow and the Local Politics of Conformity -- The Reckoning : Arrest, Trial and Execution -- Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know? -- Appealing to the Court of Public Opinion -- Endgame : from Life to Death -- Mrs Clitherow and the Catholic Community after 1586 -- Aftermath of 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 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 -- Bibliography -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 12-720

ISBN

• 9781441151346 (hbk.)
• 1441151346 (hbk.)
• 9781441104366 (pbk.)
• 1441104364 (pbk.)

LCCN

2011453090

OCLC

YBP 2011453090

Author

Lake, Peter.

Title

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

Imprint

London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-238) and index.

Added Author

Questier, Michael.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-720