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Informationen zum Autor Peter Clarke specialises in medieval religious history, in particular the papacy and canon law. He is author of the monograph The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt (2007) and of numerous articles. His most recent key publication (co-edited with Patrick N. R. Zutshi) is Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410–1503, 3 volumes, Canterbury and York Society Series 103-105 (2013–15). He has also co-edited volumes 45-49 in the series Studies in Church History and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Michael Questier's research interests include the politics of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Tudor and Stuart government and administration. He has been a Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London since 2007. His publications include The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (2011) and Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550–1640 (Cambridge, 2006). Klappentext This volume evidences changes in the interaction between law and Catholicism in Tudor England, through a collection of edited texts. Zusammenfassung This volume comprises a collection of texts that evidence the role of Catholic clergy as agents of papal authority in Tudor England before and after the break with Rome. They address Wolsey's application of legatine powers during Henry VIII's reign and the penalties imposed upon Catholic clergy during the reign of Elizabeth I. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Rivalling Rome: Cardinal Wolsey and Dispensations: 1. Introduction; 2. A note on editorial method; Appendix 1A. Enregistered copy of Pope Leo X's letter to Cardinal Wolsey, 27 June 1521; Appendix 1B. Purported 'Breve' of Pope Clement VII to Cardinal Wolsey, c.1527; Appendix 2. List of Wolsey's graces issued between 10 July 1525 and 4 July 1526; Appendix 3. List of Wolsey's graces issued in the three years preceding 23 October 1529 and in arrears; Appendix 4. Calendar of letters of dispensation of Cardinal Wolsey; Part II. The Limits of Conformity in Late Elizabethan England: A Plea for a Priest: 1. Historical introduction; 2. The present document and its origins; 3. A plee for a Prieste; 4. Index of personal and place names to appendices 2-4....
