Papal Authority and the Limits of the Law in Tudor England

Name: Papal Authority and the Limits of the Law in Tudor England
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107130364
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This volume brings together contributions from two separate editors. The first is a collection of texts edited by Peter Clarke that evidence Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's legatine powers to grant dispensations and other papal graces and his exercise of these powers during the 1520s in Henry VIII's realm; these papal favours released Henry's subjects from the rules of canon law in certain instances. The second is a text edited by Michael Questier comprising glosses on and suggested readings of the Elizabethan statute law which imposed treason penalties on Catholic clergy who exercised their office in reconciling to Rome (i.e. absolving from schism and heresy) and on those who availed themselves of this sacramental power. Both contributions illuminate the limits of the law and flexibility in interpreting and applying it and regard the role of Catholic clergy as agents of papal authority in Tudor England before and after the break with Rome. See more

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Weight: 360g
Dimensions: 145 x 223mm
Publication Date: 19 Nov 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781107130364

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Peter Clarke specialises in medieval religious history in particular the papacy and canon law. He is author of the monograph The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt (2007) and of numerous articles. His most recent key publication (co-edited with Patrick N. R. Zutshi) is Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary 14101503 3 volumes Canterbury and York Society Series 103-105 (201315). He has also co-edited volumes 45-49 in the series Studies in Church History and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Michael Questier's research interests include the politics of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Tudor and Stuart government and administration. He has been a Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London since 2007. His publications include The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England (2011) and Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics Aristocratic Patronage and Religion c.15501640 (Cambridge 2006).