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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821178403321

Autore

Lake Peter

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8264-3153-4

1-4411-0092-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

282.0924

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; The Radicalization of the Mid-Elizabethan Catholics; The Quarrels of the English Catholic Community; The Reckoning: Arrest, Trial and Execution; Mrs Clitherow and the English Catholic Community after 1586; Thomas Bell's Revenge and the 1591 Proclamation; Epilogue: Margaret Clitherow and the English Reformation; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

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 sixteen