Reformation Resistance Tudor Lancas
Cambridge University Press, 10/13/2008
EAN 9780521083935, ISBN10: 0521083931
Paperback, 392 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Historians have long known that Lancashire remained more solidly Catholic after the Reformation than any other part of England, but the peculiarity of the area has never been explained. This book argues that for geographical, social and economic, as well as religious reasons, orthodox Catholicism in the county was at its high-point immediately before the Reformation, so that the history of religious change in Lancashire in the sixteenth century is not the conventional one of Protestant triumph and Catholic failure. The Henrician Reformation was met by resistance and rebellion, while the Edwardian reforms were inadequately enforced and made little impact, though a handful of radical preachers made a few gains in one corner of the county. The Marian regime was able to revitalize the old religion, and the Elizabethan Settlement encountered widespread opposition. Catholic practices could not be excluded from the established Church, and Catholic recusancy developed earlier and on a wider scale than in any other area of England.
Part I. The early Tudor Church
1. The government of the Church
2. Lancashire parishes and their incumbents
3. Chapels, chaplains and chantrists
4. Priests and people
conduct and attitudes
5. Orthodox piety and practices
6. Lancashire, Lollards and Protestants
7. The county community and the outside world
Part II. Reform and counter-reform
8. The enforcement of reform in the reign of Henry VIII
9. Militant resistance
the Pilgrimage of Grace
10. The official Reformation under Edward VI
11. The unofficial Reformation
the beginnings of Protestantism
12. The reign of Mary
counter-reform
13. The reconstruction of the Church
Part III. The division of a community
14. The attempt to impose Anglicanism
15. The Elizabethan Church in Lancashire
16. The emergence of recusancy
17. Recusants and church-papists
18. Protestantism and south-east Lancashire
19. Catholics, Puritans and the establishment.