Wilson, Derek. A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. Heinemann, 1972.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Anne Askew | It seems AA
was arrested twice this year, for speaking against the Sacrament. The second time was on 13 June. |
| Cultural formation | John Dryden | Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism
. He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at... |
| Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | Both of GBS
's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense... |
| Cultural formation | Aphra Behn | AB
seems to have converted before the end of her life to Catholicism
, which was in tune with her political allegiances. A poem on the execution of Lord Stafford
(written soon after this event... |
| Cultural formation | Catherine Cookson | After the war, CC
's search for religious belief involved her for a while in spiritualism. She believed that on one occasion when she and her husband lost themselves in a country lane they had... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick
, at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics
. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82. 170 Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75. 259 |
| Cultural formation | Clotilde Graves | Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG
converted to Catholicism
in 1896. |
| Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | After converting to Roman Catholicism
the previous year, MH
was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol). Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 225 |
| Cultural formation | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
was born into the Roman CatholicChurch
(to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of... |
| Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
| Cultural formation | Antonia Fraser | Antonia converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a... |
| Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | Born into the professional middle class, NRS
had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol. 218 , No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21. |
| Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of her older lover, Ladye
, RH
converted to Catholicism
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 81-2 |
| Cultural formation | F. Tennyson Jesse |
Timeline
8 December 1635: Queen Henrietta Maria's personal Roman Catholic...
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8 December 1635
Queen Henrietta Maria
's personal Roman Catholic
chapel, designed by Inigo Jones
, opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
31, 28-9
9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...
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9 November 1640
In a season during which John Pym
and the Long Parliament
created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6
By 1643: Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of...
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By 1643
Arcangela Tarabotti
(a Venetian, eldest of nine sisters, who had been placed in a convent at an early age) was circulating in manuscript what became her best-known work, La Tirannia paterna or Paternal Tyranny.
Disse, Dorothy. “Arcangela Tarabotti”. Other Women’s Voices.
30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...
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30 March 1643
An altarpiece by Rubens
in Henrietta Maria
's Roman Catholic
chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
244-6
Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...
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Before October 1646
Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw
(1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
11 September 1649: Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell's...
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11 September 1649
Irish Catholics
were massacred by Cromwell
's army after they captured the town of Drogheda in Ireland from royalist Sir Arthur Aston .
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
314, 326
Worden, Blair. “Cromwellian England 1649-1660”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 123-47.
127
Bennett, Ronan. “Warts and all”. Guardian Weekly, 10 Oct. 2008, p. 38.
38
6 June 1654: Queen Christina abdicated from the throne...
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6 June 1654
Queen Christina
abdicated from the throne of Sweden; crowned queen at the age of five in 1632, she was crowned again in December 1644 on reaching eighteen.
Marks, Tracy. Queen Christina of Sweden. 13 Feb. 2003, http://www.windweaver.com/christina/christina.htm.
1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...
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1670
Les Pensées de M. Pascal
sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...
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15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...
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15 March 1672
Charles II
promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist
s or recusants
in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.
March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...
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March 1673
Charles II
withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters
and Roman Catholics
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Bunyan
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
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Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326
1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...
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1676
A tally taken by Church of England
clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics
and Dissenters
in England and Wales.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
78-9, 81, 84, 87
Early 1678: Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders...
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Early 1678
Persecution of Scots Covenanters
and attenders at secret conventicles reached a new level with the despatch of Highland troops (mostly Roman Catholics
) to enforce the law in Ayrshire.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...
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1682
Bunyan
published an allegory of salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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