Synopses & Reviews
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements \ Preface \ Abbreviations \ 1. The Controversial Mrs Clitherow \ 2. The Radicalisation of the mid-Elizabethan Catholics \ 3. Mrs Clitherow, her Catholic household and her Catholic enemies \ 4. The Quarrels of the Catholic Community \ 5. Recusancy and its Discontents \ 6. Thomas Bell and his Enemies \ 7. Christianity sans Eglise: the Religion of the Heart among Catholics and Puritans \ 8. Fainthearted Catholics and Real Catholics: Mrs Clitherow and the Local Politics of Conformity \ 9. The Reckoning: Arrest, Trial and Execution \ 10. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know? \ 11. Appealing to the Court of Public Opinion \ 12. Endgame: from Life to Death \ Mrs Clitherow and the Catholic Community after 1586 \ 13. Aftermath of Execution \ 14. The Tyrant and the Quisling \ 15. Between Resistance and Compromise? Thomas Bell's Revenge and the 1591 Proclamation \ 16. Thomas Bell changes Sides \ 17. Acting on Information received \ 18. Reading against the Grain; or what Thomas Bell had really been doing in Lancashire Clitherow Vindicated; The Church under the Cross and the Resort to the Public 19. \ Thomas Bell and the Politics of Failure \ 20. Mrs Clitherow entirely vindicated as the Epitome of Catholic Order \ Aftermath \ Bibliography \ Conclusion \ Index