Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550-1640 - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (Paperback)

Michael C. Questier (author)

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Paperback 588 Pages / Published: 10/07/2008

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Synopsis

This is a study of the political, religious, social and mental worlds of the Catholic aristocracy from 1550 to 1640. Michael Questier examines the familial and patronage networks of the English Catholic community and their relationship to the later Tudors and Stuarts. He shows how the local history of the Reformation can be used to rewrite mainstream accounts of national politics and religious conflict in this period. The book takes in the various crises of mid- and late Elizabeth politics, the accession of James VI, the Gunpowder Plot, religious toleration and the start of the Thirty Years War and finally the rise of Laudianism, leading up to the civil war. It challenges recent historical notions of Catholicism as fundamentally sectarian and demonstrates the extent to which sections of the Catholic community had come to an understanding with both the local and national State by the later 1620s and 1630s.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521068802
Number of pages: 588
Weight: 850 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

Review of the hardback: 'To put it simply, if you want to know the state of 'Catholic' history today, this is where you start ... Questier liberally sprinkles his text with humour, ensuring it never becomes too stifling, always the danger with a proverbial doorstep of a book ... he has successfully produced a masterclass, so often neglected by academic historians, in straddling that great juncture between popular and academic history.' Catholic Times
Review of the hardback: '... you get the feeling that Questier is enjoying himself ... the term 'must read' is over used but, it's the only possible description.' Catholic Times
"In persuasively asserting a place for 'Catholic history' in the central narrative of psot-Reformation politics, Questier has done scholarship a major service." - Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, The Catholic Historical Review
"In Catholicism and the Community, Michael Questier re-examines post-Reformation Catholicism through the lens of two coexistent communities: one, the wider 'Catholic community' in England; the other, an aristocratic entourage." -Rosamund Oates, H-Albion
"...dense in detail with veritable thickets of footnotes, enlivened by a vigorous style and by a fair-minded consideration of the views of other historians. It makes a convincing case for the argument that to be illuminating, the story must include both the internal relations of the community and its relations with the regime." --Paul S. Weaver, Stanford University: Journal of Interdisciplinary History