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- Title
Persuading the queen's majesty's subjects from their allegiance: treason, reconciliation and confessional identity in Elizabethan England.
- Authors
Underwood, Lucy
- Abstract
This article examines how political, theological and cultural factors formed confessional identity in Elizabethan England. It explores the rite of 'reconciliation' - usually the means by which Protestants converted to Catholicism - and its peculiar significance to English Catholics. The author argues that due to its illegal status in England, as well as the wider context of post-Reformation Catholicism, reconciliation became blurred with auricular confession and was adapted into a rite of passage for lifelong Catholics as well as converts. Reconciliation illustrates how political conflicts shaped the religious culture of English Catholics; it is also a striking example of how religious groups respond to minority status, modifying their traditions in order to create and preserve collective identity.
- Subjects
CONFESSION (Christianity); PROTESTANTS; PROTESTANT-Catholic relations; PROTESTANT churches; ENGLISH Reformation; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Research, 2016, Vol 89, Issue 244, p246
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12131