The Excommunication of Elizabeth I: Faith, Politics, and Resistance in Post-Reformation England, 1570–1603
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- Book
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- 2020
- Publisher:
- Brill
- Place published:
- Leiden
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The Excommunication of Elizabeth I examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign. Muller shows that Elizabeth’s excommunication was a crucial turning point for both Catholics and Protestants, one that irrevocably changed attitudes towards the queen, widened political participation and resistance, and posed a destabilising threat to her regime. The Excommunication of Elizabeth I demonstrates how this event exacerbated religious tensions in England’s foreign and domestic politics, and how Elizabeth’s conflict with the papacy shaped the development of anti-Catholicism in post-Reformation England.
The consequences of Elizabeth's excommunication for the Jesuit mission to England receive particular attention throughout the book. The book assesses the impact of the papal sentence on the planning of the first mission to England in 1580 and the role of missionary priests in communicating the sentence to English Catholics, as well as its role in the Archpriest Controversy between Jesuit and secular priests working in England. Uses of the sentence in polemical attacks against the Jesuit mission are also considered.
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- Number of Pages:
- 252
- ISBN:
- 97890044259969789004426009
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