Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: English Catholic history in context - Ethan Shagan
2. Is the pope Catholic? Henry VIII and the semantics of schism - Peter Marshall
3. Confronting compromise: the schism and its legacies in mid-Tudor England - Ethan Shagan
4. Elizabeth and the Catholics - Michael C. Questier
5. Construing martyrdom in the English Catholic community, 1582-1602 - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
6. From Leicester his Commonwealth to Sejanus his fall: Ben Jonson and the politics of Roman (Catholic) virtue - Peter Lake
7. Papalist political thought and the controversy over the Jacobean oath of allegiance - Johann Sommerville
8. ‘Furor juvenilis’: post-Reformation English Catholicism and exemplary youthful behavior - Alison Shell
Index

About the Author

Ethan H. Shagan is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University

Reviews

"'This is a distinguished collection of essays, vigorously written.' Bill J. Shiels, University of York"