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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"English Catholicism"”.
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Religious Mobility and the Development of English Catholicism, 1532-1558
… and displacement in shaping the development of English Catholicism from the beginnings of Henry VIII’s break with Rome, to the death of Mary I. The state-driven religious innovations of the 1530s and 1540s prompted over two hundred religious conservatives to flee England. This project examines …
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Salvation in the Scholarship of Seventeenth-Century English Catholics
… in the scholarship of three seventeenth-century English Catholics: Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Thomas White (1593–1676), and Franciscus à Sancta Clara (c. 1598–1680). My first overarching argument is that salvation is an invaluable and historiographically underappreciated conceptual focus that …
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Vocations to the Secular: An Ethnography of the Men's Branch of Opus Dei Britain
… established a small footing in the world of English Catholicism. Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork primarily in London, my thesis illustrates male members’ experiences within the organisation’s local and global structure. I document how a vocation to Opus Dei entails the …
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English Catholic Eschatology, 1558 - 1603.
Early modern English Catholic eschatology, the belief that the present was the last age and an associated concern with mankind’s destiny, has been overlooked in the historiography. Historians have established that early modern Protestants had an eschatological understanding of the present. This …
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The Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
This thesis explores coexistence, Catholicism’s survival and religiopolitical crises in London through a case study of the queen’s and embassy chapels. A central tension at the heart of early modern society was the imperative to uphold religious uniformity while living with confessional diversity …
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Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
… the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before the infamous Exclusion Crisis began. History has traditionally remembered her for being the wife of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and for bringing tea …