Katherine the Queen
Katherine the Queen

Author: Linda Porter

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1429918306

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The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536-37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Her life had been dramatic even before she became queen and it would remain so after Henry's death. She hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, and died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548. Her brief happiness was undermined by the very public flirtation of her husband and step-daughter, Princess Elizabeth. She was one of the most influential and active queen consorts in English history, and this is her story.

Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages
Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages

Author: P. H. Cullum

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780802048929

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Studies in gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity, however the study of medieval masculinities has developed greatly over the last few years. Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages is the first volume to concentrate on this specific aspect of medieval gender studies, and looks at the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity intersected with concepts of holiness. Patricia Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis have collected an exceptional group of essays that explore differing notions of medieval holiness, understood variously as religious, saintly, sacred, pure, morally perfect, and consider topics such as significance of the tonsure, sanctity and martyrdom, eunuch saints, and the writings of Henry Suso. Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages deals with a wide variety of texts and historical contexts, from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon and late-medieval England.

English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-century Paris
English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-century Paris

Author: Katy Gibbons

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0861933133

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This title uses a range of evidence to investigate the polemical and practical impact of religious exile. Moving beyond contemporary stereotypes, it reconstructs the experience and the priorities of the English Catholics in Paris and the hostile and sympathetic responses that they elicited in both England and France.

English Catholicism 1558–1642
English Catholicism 1558–1642

Author: Alan Dures

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1000465748

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Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English Catholicism 1558–1642 explores the position of Catholics in early modern English society, their political significance, and the internal politics of the Catholic community. The Elizabethan religious settlement of 1559 ostensibly outlawed Catholicism in England, while subsequent events such as the papal excommunication of Elizabeth I, the Spanish Armada, and the Gunpowder Plot led to draconian penalties and persecution. The problem of Catholicism preoccupied every English government between Elizabeth I and Charles I, even if the numbers of Catholics remained small. Nevertheless, a Catholic community not only survived in early modern England but also exerted a surprising degree of influence. Amid intense persecution, expressions of Catholicism ranged from those who refused outright to attend the parish church (recusants) to ‘church papists’ who remained Catholics at heart. English Catholicism 1558–1642 shows that, against all odds, Catholics remained an influential and historically significant minority of religious dissenters in early modern England. Co-authored with Francis Young, this volume has been updated to include recent developments in the historiography of English Catholicism. It is a useful introduction for all undergraduate students interested in the English Reformation and early modern English history.

The Catholic Gentry of Yorkshire, 1536-1642
The Catholic Gentry of Yorkshire, 1536-1642

Author: Sarah L. Bastow

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780773453258

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This work provides a revisionist study of English Catholicism among the Yorkshire gentry in the century following the English Reformation. It also looks at the activities of Catholic women, the younger sons of gentry families and some of the less well-known individuals of the Yorkshire communities in the maintenance of Catholicism in the county.

Catholics and Treason
Catholics and Treason

Author: Michael Questier

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 681

ISBN-13: 0192662554

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Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing of its own history. Prosecutions of Catholics under the existing law and via new legislation produced a great deal of documentation which tells us much about contemporary politics that we could not garner from any other source. The intention here is to locate the narratives of persecution inside the context of the 'mainstream' history of the period from which, for the most part, they have been routinely excluded but out of which they partly emerged. In that respect, this is the history of the post-Reformation Church and State with the politics (of violence) put back. This volume takes as its starting point the magnum opus of Bishop Richard Challoner, his Memoirs of Missionary Priests, and it works backwards from that book into the period that Challoner describes. Historian Michael Questier seeks to reassemble as far as possible the historical jigsaw puzzle on which Challoner laboured but which he could not complete, thinking about the implications for our view of the post-Reformation and of the way in which Challoner and others described the Catholic experience of in/tolerance.

Catholic Gentry in English Society
Catholic Gentry in English Society

Author: Peter Marshall

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780754664321

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This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of essays addressing aspects of the history of the Throckmorton family. Despite their persistent adherence to Catholicism over several centurie