Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1621-1638
Subtitle: catholicism and the politics of personal rule
By: edited by Michael C. Questier.
Contributors: Questier, Michael C.; Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Series: Camden fifth series -- v. 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources; England -- Church history -- 17th century -- Sources; Great  Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Sources; England -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Catholicism and the politics of personal rule
Description: "The newsletters published in this volume were written by Catholics who had access to the Court of Charles I and Henrietta Maria during the 1630s. The letters' principal concern was the factional strife among English Catholics, particularly over the issue of whether they should be subject to the authority of a Catholic bishop appointed by the papacy to live and rule over them in England. But these letters also contain Court news and gossip, information about foreign policy issues, and comment on the contemporary Church-of-England controversies over theology and clerical conformity. They are an important source for the study of the ideological tone of the Caroline Court, and of the ambition of certain sections of the Catholic community to secure a form of legal tolerance from the crown."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.