Relics, writing, and memory in the English Counter Reformation: Thomas Maxfield and his afterlives
This article explores the multiple and competing afterlives of the Jacobean martyr, Thomas Maxfield, who was executed at Tyburn in July 1616. It traces the evolution of his cult between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries by exploring the migration of his relics alongside the movements of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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British Catholic history
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-105 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Counter Reformation
B Martyrs B Memory B Writing B Archives B Relics |
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| Summary: | This article explores the multiple and competing afterlives of the Jacobean martyr, Thomas Maxfield, who was executed at Tyburn in July 1616. It traces the evolution of his cult between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries by exploring the migration of his relics alongside the movements of the written and printed texts recounting his life and death. It investigates the domestic and international politics in which these textual and material remains circulated and illuminates the making and metamorphosis of social memory in the English Counter Reformation. It sheds fresh light on how Maxfield's relics served both to bind this imagined community together and to divide and fragment it. Highlighting the interweaving of devotion and scholarship, antiquarianism and piety, it also argues that relic collecting must be recognised as part of the wider contemporary enterprises of religious record-keeping and writing sacred history. |
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| ISSN: | 2055-7981 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: British Catholic history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/bch.2018.3 |