The political engagement of Lancashire Catholic gentry in the reign of Elizabeth I : 1558 to the Armada

Received accounts of Elizabethan Catholic gentry are largely de politicised , obscuring the extent and range of gentry political behaviour and assuming a general withdrawal into apolitical quietism. This thesis is an attempt to restore Elizabethan Catholics as political animals, identifying a range...

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Main Author: Hammond, Wilfred
Published: Lancaster University 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604548