James Murray

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the efforts of the Tudor regime to implement the 'English Reformation' in Ireland during the sixteenth century. Centred on the diocese of Dublin, the book challenges the traditional assumption that the Reformation was ultimately defeated by Tridentine Catholicism and Counter-Reformation missionaries. Instead, it contends that the most significant opposition came from a survivalist clerical elite who rejected the 'new religion' on the grounds that its adoption would ruin the English cultural ethos of the Pale community, of which traditional medieval Catholicism was a fundamental part. Thus, as well as demonstrating that the task of enforcing the Reformation was more formidable than has been accepted, and its failure more complex that has been assumed, the book also questions some commonly held assumptions concerning the contribution of religion to the formation of national identity on these islands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9780521770385
• ISBN-10: 0521770386
• Artikelnr.: 21755118

Autorenporträt

James Murray is a first-time author. Growing up in the 80s, he bore witness to the explosion of technology at that time and was an avid arcade gamer. He keeps his memories alive by writing fiction. James lives in the Greater Toronto Area with his wife, son, and two daughters. Instagram: the_80s_author

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. 'Handmaid' of the English church: the diocese of Dublin on the eve of the Reformation; 2. 'Faithful Catholics of the English nation': patriotism, canon law and the corporate clergy; 3. Rebellion and supremacy: Archbishop Browne, clerical opposition and the enforcement of the early Reformation, 1534
40; 4. 'God's laws and ours together': Archbishop Browne, political reform and the emergence of a new religious settlement, 1540
2; 5. The rise and fall of the Viceroy's settlement: property, canon law and politics during the St Leger era, 1542
53; 6. Archbishop Dowdall and the restoration of Catholicism in Dublin, 1553
5; 7. Rejuvenation and survival: the old religion during the episcopacy of Hugh Curwen, 1555
67; 8. Archbishop Loftus and the drive to protestantise Dublin, 1567
90; Afterword; Appendix I. The division of administrative responsibilities between the two Dublin cathedrals; Appendix II. The parishes of the diocese of Dublin, 1530
1600.