The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535–1603
Title | The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535–1603 PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Dillon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 746 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351892398 |
Between 1535 and 1603, more than 200 English Catholics were executed by the State for treason. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary sources, Anne Dillon examines the ways in which these executions were transformed into acts of martyrdom. Utilizing the reports from the gallows, the Catholic community in England and in exile created a wide range of manuscripts and texts in which they employed the concept of martyrdom for propaganda purposes in continental Europe and for shaping Catholic identity and encouraging recusancy at home. Particularly potent was the derivation of images from these texts which provided visual means of conveying the symbol of the martyr. Through an examination of the work of Richard Verstegan and the martyr murals of the English College in Rome, the book explores the influence of these images on the Counter Reformation Church, the Jesuits, and the political intentions of English Catholics in exile and those of their hosts. The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535-1603 shows how Verstegan used the English martyrs in his Theatrum crudelitatum of 1587 to rally support from Catholics on the Continent for a Spanish invasion of England to overthrow Elizabeth I and her government. The English martyr was, Anne Dillon argues, as much a construction of international, political rhetoric as it was of English religious and political debate; an international Catholic banner around which Catholic European powers were urged to rally.
Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535-1603
Title | Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535-1603 PDF eBook |
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Release | 2017 |
Genre | Electronic book |
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The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community
Title | The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Dillon |
Publisher | Gower Publishing Company, Limited |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | England |
ISBN | 9780754652229 |
Between the accession of King James I in 1603, and King James II in 1685, 81 English Catholics were put to death by the state for treason and 15 others died in prison while awaiting execution. This book considers the ways in which the English Catholic community, both at home and abroad, transformed these deaths into acts of martyrdom.
Catholics and the 'Protestant Nation'
Title | Catholics and the 'Protestant Nation' PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan H. Shagan |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2005-09-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780719057687 |
This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography
The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community to 1603
Title | The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community to 1603 PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Kathleen Dillon |
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Release | 1998 |
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Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England
Title | Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Susannah Brietz Monta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2005-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521844987 |
A comprehensive comparison of the representations of early modern Protestant and Catholic martyrs.
The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism
Title | The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Kelly |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2023-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198843801 |
The first volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism explores the period 1530-1640, from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the outbreak of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland. It analyses the efforts to create Catholic communities after the officially implemented change in religion, as well as the start of initiatives that would set the course of British and Irish Catholicism, including the beginning of the missionary enterprise and the formation of a network of exile religious institutions such as colleges and convents. This work explores every aspect of life for Catholics in both islands as they came to grips with the constant changes in religious policies that characterised this 110-year period. Accordingly, there are chapters on music, on literature in the vernaculars, on violence and martyrdom, and on the specifics of the female experience. Anxiety and the challenges of living in religiously mixed societies gave rise to new forms of creativity in religious life which made the Catholic experience much more than either plain continuity or endless endurance. Antipopery, or the extent to which Catholics became a symbolic antitype for Protestants, became in many respects a kind of philosophy about which political life in England, Scotland, and colonised Ireland began to revolve. At the same time the legal frameworks across both Britain and Ireland which sought to restrict, fine, or exclude Catholics from public life are given close attention throughout, as they were the daily exigencies which shaped identity just as much as devotions, liturgy, and directives emanating from the Catholic Reformation then ongoing in continental Europe.