Title: Childhood, youth and religious dissent in post-Reformation England /
Authors: Underwood, Lucy, 1984-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Catholic Church England History.; Catholic children England History; Catholic children England History; Children Religious life England History.; Dissenters, Religious England History.; Identity (Psychology) in children England History.; Identification (Religion) Social aspects England History.; Conversion Social aspects England History.; Protestantism England History.; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.; HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.; HISTORY / Social History.; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies.; England Church history
Abstract: "This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's most controversial minority: Catholicism. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the religious, social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity. The young, it argues, were not inevitably pawns in a world governed by hierarchies of kinship, workplace, church and state. The motives and even the voices of those who challenged various manifestations of authority in the early modern world can often be recovered, and the choices they made tell us much about the complex and changing relationships between society, church and state in the post-Reformation world"--
Contents: PART I: MAKING CATHOLICS -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Call Yourself a Catholic? Methods of Forming Identity -- 2. Calling their Souls their own : Converting and Claiming -- 3. Children, Catechesis and Religious Practice -- PART II: THE PROTESTANT STATE AND CATHOLIC CHILDREN -- Introduction to Part II -- 4. The Court of Wards -- 5. Notable Stratagems : Control of Catholic Children outside the Court of Wards -- PART III: YOUTH AND CATHOLICISM -- Introduction to Part III -- 6. Speaking to the Young -- 7. Encountering and Participating -- 8. Authority and Agency -- 9. Writing Catholic Childhood -- Coda: A Catholic Household in the 1660s -- Appendix A: The Responsa Scholarum and the Liber Primi Examinis.