Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-08393-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 557 g

Historians have long known that Lancashire remained more solidly Catholic after the Reformation than any other part of England, but the peculiarity of the area has never been explained. This book argues that for geographical, social and economic, as well as religious reasons, orthodox Catholicism in the county was at its high-point immediately before the Reformation, so that the history of religious change in Lancashire in the sixteenth century is not the conventional one of Protestant triumph and Catholic failure. The Henrician Reformation was met by resistance and rebellion, while the Edwardian reforms were inadequately enforced and made little impact, though a handful of radical preachers made a few gains in one corner of the county. The Marian regime was able to revitalize the old religion, and the Elizabethan Settlement encountered widespread opposition. Catholic practices could not be excluded from the established Church, and Catholic recusancy developed earlier and on a wider scale than in any other area of England.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haigh, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The early Tudor Church: 1. The government of the Church; 2. Lancashire parishes and their incumbents; 3. Chapels, chaplains and chantrists; 4. Priests and people: conduct and attitudes; 5. Orthodox piety and practices; 6. Lancashire, Lollards and Protestants; 7. The county community and the outside world; Part II. Reform and counter-reform: 8. The enforcement of reform in the reign of Henry VIII; 9. Militant resistance: the Pilgrimage of Grace; 10. The official Reformation under Edward VI; 11. The unofficial Reformation: the beginnings of Protestantism; 12. The reign of Mary: counter-reform; 13. The reconstruction of the Church; Part III. The division of a community: 14. The attempt to impose Anglicanism; 15. The Elizabethan Church in Lancashire; 16. The emergence of recusancy; 17. Recusants and church-papists; 18. Protestantism and south-east Lancashire; 19. Catholics, Puritans and the establishment.