Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660 (eBook)

Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty

Eilish Gregory (Autor)

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2021
248 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-80010-089-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Examines the experiences of Catholics during the period when England was ruled by Puritan Protestants.This is the first book to examine thoroughly the ways in which Catholics adapted to political and social change during the turbulent years of the English Revolution. The book examines several important aspects of the Catholic experience in this period. It explores the penal laws by which the estates of Catholics were sequestrated, discussing the extent to which politicians designed the new laws to target Catholics specifically, rather than Royalists more generally, and outlining how the sequestration legislation operated in practice. It considers how Catholic gentry utilised their networks with influential Protestants with wider political connections when applying to have their sequestrations discharged. More broadly the book reveals how Catholics demonstrated their loyalty and assimilated into society despite being viewed as the natural enemies of the English Republic and Protectorate. The book also compares Catholic experiences to those of other religious minorities and sets the situation in England in the wider European international context of Catholic-Protestant rivalry and warfare, which made Catholics a particularly vulnerable religious minority in Puritan England. Eilish Gregory is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Historical Society. She has held research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Durham University and Marsh's Library and teaches at the University of Reading.

Inhalt

Introduction
The Reformation of the Sequestration Process during the Civil Wars, 1642-1648
The Sequestration Process in the English Republic, 1649-1660
Print and Publicity in the Sequestration and Compounding Process
Strategies and Persuasion: Catholic Experiences of the Sequestration and Compounding Process
Catholic and Protestant Networks in the English Revolution, 1642-1660
Catholics and the Government of the English Republic, 1649-1660
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2021
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Charles I • Early Modern England • Legal History • Loyalty • Networks • Oliver Cromwell • parliament • Persecution • Political History • Print history • Religious History • Sequestration • seventeenth-century • Social History • Stuarts • tolerat
• ISBN-10: 1-80010-089-2 / 1800100892
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-089-3 / 9781800100893