Among more moderate Calvinist clergy, gentry and artisans, in Britain and later New England, a broader commonwealth and Reformed Church on an inclusive parish model retained the concept of the covenanting community and, in places, the restriction of political rights to male church members. These ...
The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England. Spanish Golden Age: A period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. It does not imply...
Anti-Catholicism in various forms has been a prominent feature of post-reformation British culture and society. According to Bernard Glassman’s study of “protean prejudice,” during the eighteenth century, “Catholics were, by far, the most despised and feared minority group in England. … If,...
Review of Tutino, S., Law and Conscience: Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570-1625 (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007doi:10.1353/PGN.0.0130Dolly MacKinnonAustralian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies...
Marotti (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), 37-65.Arthur Marotti, “Southwell’s Remains: Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern England,” in Texts and Cultural Change, 1520–1700 , ed. Arthur Marotti and Cedric C. Brown (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997)....
Spanish Armada: A Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588 with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England. ...
as well as in churchdisciplineand government. The basis of this doctrine ofpapal primacyis twofold, involving the place of St.Peterin theNew Testament(in which there are variousmetaphorsexpressing Peter’s authority) and the place of the Roman church in history. The understanding of papal primacy...
Roman Catholicism - Reformation, Counter-Reformation, Church: The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th. This was the time when Protes