Catholic renewal and Protestant resistance in Marian England /
[Book]
edited by Elizabeth Evenden, Vivienne Westbrook.
xvii, 329 pages ;
24 cm.
Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-322) and index.
Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to revive an old statute against heresy. The efforts to renew Catholic worship and to revive Catholic education and spirituality were fiercely opposed by a small but determined group of Protestants, who sought ways of thwarting the return of Catholicism. The battle between those seeking to renew Catholicism and those determined to resist it raged for the full five years of Mary's reign.