The Archpriest Controversy: The conservative Appellants against the progressive Jesuits
The Archpriest Controversy, a dispute that took place from 1598 to 1602 over the necessity for an archpriest to enforce moral discipline among the English Catholic clergy, has been traditionally seen either as a struggle for hierarchical order within the Catholic Church or a serious ideological brea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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British Catholic history
Year: 2017, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 561-582 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDB Roman Catholic Church KDE Anglican Church RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Counter-Reformation
B Appellants B Christopher Bagshaw B Jesuits B Archpriest Controversy |
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| Summary: | The Archpriest Controversy, a dispute that took place from 1598 to 1602 over the necessity for an archpriest to enforce moral discipline among the English Catholic clergy, has been traditionally seen either as a struggle for hierarchical order within the Catholic Church or a serious ideological breach between the Jesuit faction and the Appellants. In contrast to recent historiography, this paper argues that the Appellants, secular clergy that opposed the archpriest, represented views of conservative English Catholics who believed they could reconcile their political loyalty to their monarch with their Catholicism. The Archpriest Controversy should be reconsidered as a critical moment in a chain of important events from the English Mission of 1580-81 to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 that reaffirmed the inherently traditionalist nature of the Catholic community in England. |
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| ISSN: | 2055-7981 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: British Catholic history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/bch.2017.25 |