Manuscripts in Midland Libraries

Manuscripts in Midland Libraries

Author: Valerie Edden

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780859915878

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`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES


English Catholicism, 1680-1830, vol 1

English Catholicism, 1680-1830, vol 1

Author: Michael Mullett

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1040237495

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Offers a collection of English-language Catholic literature covering the long eighteenth century. This book focuses on the periods of martyrdom and violent persecution from the end of the sixteenth to the end of the seventeenth centuries and, latterly, on the so-called 'Second Spring' of English Catholicism.


Recusant History

Recusant History

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Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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A journal of research in Post-Reformation Catholic history in the British Isles.


Reformation Divided

Reformation Divided

Author: Eamon Duffy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1472934377

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Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as 'The Reformation', a tendentious description implying that the shattering of the medieval religious foundations of Europe was a single process, in which a defective form of Christianity was replaced by one that was unequivocally benign, 'the midwife of the modern world'. The book challenges these assumptions by tracing the ways in which the project of reforming Christendom from within, initiated by Christian 'humanists' like Erasmus and Thomas More, broke apart into conflicting and often murderous energies and ideologies, dividing not only Catholic from Protestant, but creating deep internal rifts within all the churches which emerged from Europe's religious conflicts. The book is in three parts: In 'Thomas More and Heresy', Duffy examines how and why England's greatest humanist apparently abandoned the tolerant humanism of his youthful masterpiece Utopia, and became the bitterest opponent of the early Protestant movement. 'Counter-Reformation England' explores the ways in which post-Reformation English Catholics accommodated themselves to a complex new identity as persecuted religious dissidents within their own country, but in a European context, active participants in the global renewal of the Catholic Church. The book's final section 'The Godly and the Conversion of England' considers the ideals and difficulties of radical reformers attempting to transform the conventional Protestantism of post-Reformation England into something more ardent and committed. In addressing these subjects, Duffy shines new light on the fratricidal ideological conflicts which lasted for more than a century, and whose legacy continues to shape the modern world.


Dives and pauper

Dives and pauper

Author: Priscilla Heath Barnum

Publisher: Early English Text Society

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780197223260

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The third and final volume, containing introduction, notes, and glossary, to Dives and Pauper, edited by Priscilla Barnum (Early English Texts Society, Original Series 275 and 280) contains full discussion of the text's historical context and description of the manuscripts.