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Episcopacy and Enmity in Early Modern England: Bishop Richard Smith, Catholic Information Networks, and the Question of Religious Toleration, 1631-1638
(2015-04-08)
This paper challenges the dominant view that the post-Reformation English Catholic community was a marginalized and intermittently persecuted minority. John Bossy enshrined this perspective in the historiographical tradition ...
Catholic Loyalty in Jacobean England: Thomas Preston’s Appeal to the English Catholic Laity over the 1606 Oath of Allegiance
(2015-04-08)
In this paper, I challenge prevailing scholarship and argue that the Jacobean 1606 Oath of Allegiance was not the death knell for English Catholicism. Because the Oath of Allegiance denied the papal deposing power, the ...
‘Rigour upon men’s consciences’: Political Allegiance, Religious Profession, and the English Catholic Community during the Interregnum
(2018-11-16)
This dissertation offers a new interpretation of Oliver Cromwell’s rule as Lord Protector (1653-58). English Catholics, a minority religious community maligned on both religious and political grounds, are the analytic ...