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dc.contributor.authorWalsham, Alexandraen_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-05T16:33:02Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T10:52:55Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T14:14:16Z
dc.date.issued2003-12en_GB
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the way in which the Counter Reformation priests sent to England after 1574 cultivated and harnessed the culture of the miraculous in their efforts to reform and evangelize the populace and to defend doctrines and practices assaulted by Protestant polemicists. Drawing on the insights emerging from recent research on Catholic renewal on the Continent, it shows how the seminary clergy and especially the Jesuits fostered traditional beliefs and practices associated with saints, relics, and sacramentals and exploited the potential of exorcisms and visions for didactic and proselytizing purposes. Close examination of these strategies serves to question some existing assumptions about the nature, objectives, and impact of the English Catholic mission and to illuminate the particular challenges that persecution presented to a movement determined to purge popular piety of its ‘ superstitious ’ accretions. It underlines the tensions between ecclesiastical direction and lay initiative which characterized a context in which Catholicism was a minority Church and highlights the frictions and divisions which these attempts to utilize supernatural power stimulated within the ranks of the Counter Reformation priesthood itself.en_GB
dc.identifier.citation46(4), pp.779-815en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0018246X03003303en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/48544en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=190705&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0018246X03003303en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=HIS&volumeId=46&issueId=04&iid=190702en_GB
dc.subjectCounter Reformationen_GB
dc.subjectCatholicismen_GB
dc.subjectmiraclesen_GB
dc.subjectmissionen_GB
dc.subjectevangelismen_GB
dc.subjectsaintsen_GB
dc.subjectrelicsen_GB
dc.subjectsacramentalsen_GB
dc.subject16th centuryen_GB
dc.subjectreligionen_GB
dc.titleMiracles and the Counter-Reformation mission to Englanden_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2009-02-05T16:33:02Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T10:52:55Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T14:14:16Z
dc.identifier.issn0018-246Xen_GB
dc.description© 2003 Cambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1469-5103en_GB
dc.identifier.journalThe Historical Journalen_GB


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