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Church Papists

Catholicism, Conformity and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England

  • Paperback
  • 160 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • 15.8 x 23.3 x 1.3 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of English religious history

Explains the hidden lives of Catholics in Protestant churches

You will gain a deeper understanding of faith conflicts

This insightful book examines the complex role of Church Papists in early modern England.

'Church Papist' was a nickname, a term of abuse, for those English Catholics who outwardly conformed to the established Protestant Church and yet inwardly remained Roman Catholics. The more dramatic stance of recusancy has drawn historians' attention away from this sizeable, if statistically indefinable, proportion of Church of England congregations, but its existence and significance is here clearly revealed through contemporary records, challenging the sectarian model of post-Reformation Catholicism perpetuated by previous historians. Alexandra Walsham explores the aggressive reaction of counter-Reformation clergy to the compromising conduct of church papists and the threat they posed to Catholicism's separatist image; alongside this she explains why parish priests simultaneously condoned qualified conformity. This scholarly and original study thus draws into focus contemporary clerical apprehensions and anxieties, as well as the tensions caused by the shifting theological temper ofthe late Elizabethan and early Stuart church. ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter.
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  • Title

    Church Papists

  • Author

    Alexandra Walsham

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Boydell & Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    October 1999

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    237g

  • Page Count

    160

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.3 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780851157573

  • ISBN-10

    0851157572

  • Eden Code

    1196797

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