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All Hail to the Archpriest is a study of public politics and polemical dispute in late Elizabethan England. It focuses on the debate among Catholic clergy about the appropriate mode of ecclesiastical government to be exercised over them, which allowed them to make a series of interventions in very major political issues of the day.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: LATE ELIZABETHAN CATHOLICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
- 1: The Death of Cardinal Allen and the Wisbech Stirs: The Emergence of a Conspiracy Theory
- 2: After Wisbech: The Attempts to Secure Order in the English Catholic Community
- 3: Troubles in Rome
- 4: The Archpriest Cometh: The Appointment of George Blackwell and the Launching of the First Appeal
- 5: The New Appeal
- Part II: THE ARCHPRIEST CONTROVERSY AND LATE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL CULTURE
- 6: Libel, History and Polemic, or the Rights and Wrongs of Publicity in the Archpriest Controversy
- 7: Libel, Sin, and Virtue
- 8: The Archpriest Controversy and the Dynamics of the Post-Reformation Public Sphere
- 9: Jesuit Popularity in Practice and Theory
- 10: A Rebel's Charter
- 11: Politics and Religion Rightly Understood and Ordered
- 12: Temporal and Spiritual, Pope and Prince, the Right Way Up
- 13: Episcopacy and the Government of the Church
- 14: Both Catholic and English - the Enemies of the Society of Jesus and the Pursuit of Toleration
- 15: The Appellant Agitation and the Kingdom of France
- 16: Rival Understandings of Civil Peace, Toleration, and the Politics of Religious Identity
- 17: (Hostile) Reception and Response
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
About the author
Peter Lake did his undergraduate degree and PhD at Cambridge University and has taught subsequently at Bedford College, and then Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, in London. He spent a year as a visiting professor at Cornel before moving to Princeton in 1992 where he spent sixteen years. He moved to Vanderbilt University in 2008. While in London he is an habitual attender of seminars at the Institute of Historical Research and has been a grateful beneficiary of extended stints at both the Folger Shakespeare and Huntington Libraries. He was elected to be a fellow of the British Academy in 2018.
Formerly a professor of history in the University of London, Michael Questier has moved, via a Leverhulme research chair in 2015-2017, to be a research professor at Vanderbilt University.
Summary
All Hail to the Archpriest is a study of public politics and polemical dispute in late Elizabethan England. It focuses on the debate among Catholic clergy about the appropriate mode of ecclesiastical government to be exercised over them, which allowed them to make a series of interventions in very major political issues of the day.
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Written in the authors' typically punchy style, All Hail to the Archpriest should be required corrective reading for those who still believe the story of post-Reformation England can be told as if Catholics had disappeared from the scene, only to emerge whenever a handy scapegoat was required.
