| Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585) - Mandating the death penalty for English born Jesuits.
Rate this
|
| The Act Against Recusants (1593) - The recusants were Englishmen who would not take the Anglican eucharist - at this time they were almost entirely Catholic. This Act was the cornerstone of the "Penal Laws" which were to ensure that English Catholics would be a smaller religious minority than virtually any other Protestant nation.
Rate this
|
| Catholic Parish Histories - A short article on the development of the English Catholic parish with a link to a directory of links to histories maintained by various parishes.
Rate this
|
| Douay-Rheims: a Story of Faith - An article about the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible and its different revisions.
Rate this
|
| England (After 1558) - The Protestant Reformation is the great dividing line in the history of England, as of Europe generally.
Rate this
|
| English Reformation Sources - A list of pivotal documents regarding the Tudors' religious policies.
Rate this
|
| Erdington Abbey 1850-1876-2001 - Article on the history of this Birmingham monastic establishment. PDF format.
Rate this
|
| Fox's Book of Martyrs - This book claimed to chronicle the suppression of English Protestants under the Catholic queen "Bloody Mary". It profoundly influenced the anti-Catholicism that became a defining mark British national identity.
Rate this
|
| Lingard, John - English priest and historian b. at Winchester, 5 February, 1771; d. at Hornby, 17 July, 1851.
Rate this
|
| Mission Registers - A list of Mission Registers for England and Wales listing baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths etc. dating back as early as 1694 held in the Catholic Central Library in Westminster, London.
Rate this
|
| N.D. versus O.E: Anonymity's moral ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic controversy - From "Criticism". A study of how the use of anonymity shaped Elizabethan Catholic apologetics.
Rate this
|
| The Recusant Group - A Yahoo! discussion group devoted to the study of English Catholic experience during the Penal Times between the Reformation and the Catholic Relief Act.
Rate this
|
| Recusant Historian's Handbook - Full text of a book to help those studying the Catholic church during the "penal years".
Rate this
|
| The Re-establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in England, 1850 - An essay on the effects of the re-establishment, which to Catholics marked a definitive end to the "Penal Years". From the Victorian Web.
Rate this
|
| English Hierarchy, Reorganization of the - On 29 September, 1850, by the Bull "Universalis Ecclesiae", Pius IX restored the Catholic hierarchy in England which had become extinct with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth. Westminster became the metropolitan see and its occupant the lawful successor of the Catholic archbishops of Canterbury.
Rate this
|
| A Squire's Tale- The Story of Little Crosby - The story of a village in Lancashire UK and one family's struggle to survive the problems of being Recusant in Protestant 17th Century England. Audio excerpts need Real Audio 5.
Rate this
|
| Monasteries in England, Suppression of - From any point of view the destruction of the English monasteries by Henry VIII must be regarded as one of the great events of the sixteenth century.
Rate this
|