But a "Stage-Play": A Counter-Reformation View of the Marian Church
This essay studies Robert Persons's understanding of the reforms of Mary I of England within the continental discursive context in which he worked. By describing his critiques of Marian reforms together with similar reformist discourses in France and Spain, it is argued that his ideas represent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 533-551 |
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Parsons, Robert 1546-1610
/ Maria, I., England, Königin 1516-1558
/ England
/ Catholic church
/ Church reform
/ Counter-Reformation
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDB Roman Catholic Church SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | This essay studies Robert Persons's understanding of the reforms of Mary I of England within the continental discursive context in which he worked. By describing his critiques of Marian reforms together with similar reformist discourses in France and Spain, it is argued that his ideas represent a common Counter-Reformation polemical stance and a set of normal Catholic assumptions about the "political" and institutional reforms necessary to combat heresy. Persons's thoughts about the "political" reforms within a broader field of spiritual imperatives serve as a reminder that the Counter-Reformation was necessarily about politics despite scholarly emphasis on issues of theology and religious practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046920001463 |