The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity and Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University, USA. He is the author of many books, including Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (2015), Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid’s Tragedy (2015; with Isaac Stephens) and The Anti-Christ's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England (2002; with Michael Questier). Michael Questier is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the editor of Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England: Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation (2010; with G. Crosignani and T. McCoog), and the author of Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625 (2009) and Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640 (2006).

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
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 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
19. Clitherow Vindicated: The Church under the Cross and the Resort to the Public
20. Thomas Bell and the Politics of Failure
21. Mrs. Clitherow Entirely Vindicated as the Epitome of Catholic Order
Aftermath

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Index