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Trials of Margaret Clitherow : persecution, martyrdom and the politics of sanctity in Elizabethan England /

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 contem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Lake, Peter (Autor), Questier, Michael C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.