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Stuart England (stuart + england)
Selected AbstractsCorporations, Cathedrals and the Crown: Local Dispute and Royal Interest in Early Stuart EnglandHISTORY, Issue 280 2000Catherine F. Patterson This article investigates the jurisdictional disputes between ecclesiastical officials and civic corporations in cathedral cities in the first half of the seventeenth century and the response of central government to them. While conflict between civic and cathedral government is ancient in origin, the crown's reaction to it changed substantially over time. In the first years of the century, the crown took little interest in such disputes, allowing the parties to settle jurisdictional differences on their own, often to the advantage of civic leaders. As royal priorities shifted, however, the crown took more active steps to regulate relations between corporate government and cathedral clergy. Civic officials saw their privileges curtailed and authority questioned as the policies of the ,personal rule' altered established patterns. By tracking the course of this change, the article illuminates critical relations between centre and locality and exposes the strains felt by at least some local governments in the face of Caroline policy. [source] The Taming of Reformation: Preachers, Pastors and Parishioners in Elizabethan and Early Stuart EnglandHISTORY, Issue 280 2000Christopher Haigh Many of the godly preachers of late Elizabethan England encountered resistance from their parishioners. There were often objections to their divisiveness, to their preaching of predestination, and to their liturgical nonconformity. This article argues that parochial responses prompted some clergy to adjust their strategies, and encouraged younger ministers to adopt new ways. A more comprehensive pastorate, a proto-Arminian doctrine of justification, and a more ceremonialist approach to services resulted. The Calvinist Reformation was contained and domesticated by consumer resistance as much as by conformist bishops and Arminianizing theologians. The people had their say too. [source] Protestant Conceptions of the Devil in Early Stuart EnglandHISTORY, Issue 278 2000Darren Olderidge The central thesis of this article is that a distinctively Protestant idea of the Devil had emerged in England by the early seventeenth century. This emphasized the role of Satan as a spiritual force, with great power over human affairs. This image was not universally accepted, however. An older tradition, which depicted the Devil in crudely physical form, persisted throughout the seventeenth century in folklore and cheap literature. This article argues that godly Protestants were willing to utilize folk images of the Devil in order to promote their own religious agenda, and explores this process in several different contexts, including exorcisms and anti-Catholic propaganda. The result of this process was an interesting compromise between Protestant ideals and traditional beliefs, which illustrates the wider achievements and limitations of the English Reformation. [source] What Happened to English Catholicismafter theEnglish Reformation?HISTORY, Issue 277 2000M. C. Questier This article looks again at how historians have discussed Roman Catholicism in England after Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558. Some scholarly treatments of the topic have represented it as a popular but essentially introspective parish religion. Others have taken it to be an active clericalist force in early modern English national politics. This has made it difficult to define Catholicism's place in Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Of course, Catholicism in this period clearly had a range of meanings. This article tries to draw some of them together by probing a series of contemporary opinions about Catholicism, and how contemporaries thought it could be expressed and practised. [source] Anti-Providentialism as Blasphemy in Late Stuart England: A Case Study of "the Stage Debate"*JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 4 2008DAVID MANNING This article develops a cultural history of blasphemy as representation by exploring the nexus between conceptions and perceived manifestations of blasphemy in a theological context. Specifically it uses a case study of "the stage debate", a controversy about the viability of the theatre in England at the turn of the eighteenth century, to argue that contemporary perceptions of anti-providentialism informed a sense of practical blasphemy that was commensurate with the Thomistic conception of blasphemy as aggravated unbelief. This interpretation illuminates the theological sensitivity of contemporary godly critics to perceived instances of anti-providentialism and their belief in the actual diabolism of the theatre. [source] | ||||||||||