
The Trials of Margaret Clitherow
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...it seethes with passion: that of the men and women who killed and were killed and of the authors in unearthing the murky realities behind the life and death of a Catholic icon. [a] lively new book... [the authors's] sensible approach is to devote short chapters to each particular grouping of issues... there are compelling ideas at play here... while this is a work that will resonate with Tudor historians, it is as interesting to a lay reader both for its historiographic approach and how it traces the workings of the polity. Learned but well written and accessible, this book succeeds in bringing back some of the excitement and danger to the debates... The Trials of Margaret Clitherow is a book that needs to be read. If one wants a real idea of what was going on among Catholics at the time, then drop the sickly sweet hagiographies and read this excellent effort. ... a major achievement. It transforms current interpretations of the bitter inter- and inter-confessional disputes engendered by the English Reformation [and] illuminates the ideological struggles through which recusancy became the defining hallmark of early modern Catholic identity... ... an interesting addition to the historical canon that shows the so-called "Golden Age" was in fact heavily characterised by a frenzy of persecution. Here [the authors] have produced a fluent text which shows no signs of its double authorship, reading as if by a single pair of hands... What [they] very successfully do is to place the case of Margaret Clitherow within the context of recent research and consequent historical debate about the identity and evolution of Early Modern Catholicism in the peculiar circumstances of an England only uncertainly becoming 'Protestant'. 'The authors do a superb job of analysing these fault line. They take the time to place Clitherow's story in the context of her family life and political events but they are not afraid of drawing broader conclusions. In their hands Clitherow's sorry tale reasserts itself as one of the most important prisms through which to view the puzzling internecine struggles of Elizabethan Catholicism as well as the contours of early-modern martyrdom. We'll continue to argue about Clitherow; was she saintly or stubborn? The best place to begin any study of this conundrum is this outstanding book.' 'The narrative is detailed and intriguing, because Lake and Questier have turned up a wealth of new evidence to defend their case. Thanks to this, we enter the world of Elizabethan religious politics in all its intensity. Who are the heroes and who the villains? The scholarly debate is advanced by this book, and is set to run still further.' 'It is not a work about a saint so much as a very skilfully argued analysis of religious politics... This book exposes not sanctity so much as the confusion, conflict and misery of a beleaguered minority, and the damage wrought by political imperatives on quiet faith.' [This book] is essential reading for anybody engaged in, or embarking on, the study of post-Reformation Catholicism and, by extension, the English Reformation as a whole. * English Historical Review, vol 127, no 528, October 2012 *More details
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Michael Questier is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the author of Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England (CUP), Conversion, Politics and Religion in England 1580-1625 (CUP), and co-authored with Peter Lake The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England (Yale).
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