| Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590 Contributor(s): Murray, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521770386 ISBN-13: 9780521770385 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: This book examines the efforts of the Tudor regime to implement the 'English Reformation' in Ireland during the sixteenth century. Centred on the diocese of Dublin, the book challenges the traditional assumption that the Reformation was ultimately defeated by Tridentine Catholicism and Counter-Reformation missionaries. Instead, it contends that the most significant opposition came from a survivalist clerical elite who rejected the 'new religion' on the grounds that its adoption would ruin the English cultural ethos of the Pale community, of which traditional medieval Catholicism was a fundamental part. Thus, as well as demonstrating that the task of enforcing the Reformation was more formidable than has been accepted, and its failure more complex that has been assumed, the book also questions some commonly held assumptions concerning the contribution of religion to the formation of national identity on these islands. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 274.183 |
| LCCN: 2008043672 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.60 lbs) 370 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the enforcement of the English Reformation in the heartland of English Ireland during the sixteenth century. Focusing on the diocese of Dublin - the central ecclesiastical unit of the Pale - James Murray explains why the various initiatives undertaken by the reforming archbishops of Dublin, and several of the Tudor viceroys, to secure the allegiance of the indigenous community to the established Church ultimately failed. Led by its clergy, the Pale's loyal colonial community ultimately rejected the Reformation and Protestantism because it perceived them to be irreconcilable with its own traditional English culture and medieval Catholic identity. Dr Murray identifies the Marian period, and the opening decade of Elizabeth I's reign, as the crucial times during which this attachment to survivalist Catholicism solidified, and became a sufficiently powerful ideological force to stand against the theological and liturgical innovations advanced by the Protestant reformers. |