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Restoration and Reaction: Reinterpreting the Marian Church

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Catholic renewal and Protestant resistance in Marian England. Edited by ElizabethEvenden and VivienneWestbrook. Pp. xvii + 329 incl. 5 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2015. £80. 978 0 7546 6162 7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2017

THOMAS S. FREEMAN
THOMAS S. FREEMAN*
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Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ; e-mail: tfreeman@essex.ac.uk
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Although the reign of Mary i (1553–8) was a tumultuous and eventful one, for over four hundred years there was little debate about it or about the queen's efforts to restore Catholicism to England. The reign was almost universally perceived as poor, nasty, brutish and short-lived and the restoration of Catholicism was believed to have been doomed to failure, both because the burning of heretics offended English sensibilities and because Protestantism was already so deeply embedded in England that it could not be uprooted. Yet towards the end of the twentieth century, the tectonic plates of historical research began to shift and the resulting tremors altered the historiographical landscape of Mary's reign, and indeed of the English Reformation.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 105 - 112
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21 London Metropolitan Archive, DL/C/614, 2v. The incident almost certainly happened before – and caused – Rogers's incarceration in Newgate, although Rogers was not formally questioned about it for almost a year.

22 William Wizeman, ‘The Marian Counter-Reformation in print’, in Evenden and Westbrook, Catholic renewal, 149.

23 E. Evenden, ‘Spanish involvement in the restoration of Catholicism during the reign of Philip and Mary’, ibid. 48.

24 Ibid.