Clerical Resistance Research Articles

‘Against the Custom’: Hagiographical Rewriting and Female Abbatial Leadership at Mid-Eleventh-Century Remiremont

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of a recently identified campaign of hagiographic writing from the mid-eleventh-century monastery of Remiremont to reconstruct how this female convent positioned itself at a time when clerical resistance to the lifestyle and autonomy of non-Benedictine communities was gaining momentum. In a first stage it looks at the three hagiographies from this campaign and how they reveal a cohesive strategy to drastically review the abbey’s narrative of origins. In a second it reconstructs how their argument fits into Abbess Oda’s (before 1045-1065/70) governance strategy and how that strategy was influenced by historical leadership choices at the nearby male houses of Luxeuil and Lure. And in a final one it considers memories of abbatial agency and discourses of communal identity at ninth- and tenth-century Remiremont, and how these influenced the abbess and her associates. In doing all these things, this study reveals that the abbey’s leadership deployed a multi-faceted strategy to secure Remiremont’s independence, taking ownership of its identity narrative at a critical juncture in its existence.

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590, by James Murray.

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Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590 (review)

Enforcing the Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590. By James Murray. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xvi, 353. $108.00. ISBN 978-0-521-77038-5.) This is a new, profoundly researched, highly disciplined, and thoughtful study on efforts to both implant and repudiate the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Ireland. It emerges from the wave wash of new approaches, activated in the 1970s, to what was a sterile topic not helped by failed, monocausal explanations of failure. Originating as a doctoral thesis, the book has evolved over about fifteen years. Hence its depth and finesse- yielding a research outcome that will be hard to match in current circumstances of increasingly tight completion plans. Another benefit of the study is its deliberately old-fashioned narrative (p. 18). Happily, this means departure from the virtual norm in historiography in recent generations- the sacrifice of form to content. Here, one has not only history proper and analysis but also a lively narrative- episodic, full of human interest and suspense, but earthed in factual evidence. The sources are chiefly church and government records, as most of the parochial sources crucial to regional micro-studies are not extant in Ireland. The focus is on the keyword enforcing and the enforcers, be they viceroys, lord-deputies, archbishops, or deans of Dublin. The task was Sisyphean. James Murray zooms in on responsible clergy and administrators down the chain of command. They were English Irish, the old colonial residing in the gated community of the Pale- Ireland's Cape Colony, as it were, that was antipathetic to the conquered but unpacified Gaelic Irish majority outside it. The narrative delineates the zigzags of different strategies born of frustration and exasperation. In the Pale, the new ecclesio-political problems were acute following various responses to government policies. There was formal conformity, grudging compliance, and semi-acceptance of a new bottle that retained the old wine, so that Catholic piety survived. There was also nonconformity, dissidence, recusancy, and increasing Catholic reaffirmation and confession. Catholic revivalism seems to have been nourished partly by the Elizabethan Protestant drive to command more obethence and partly by the impetus of Tridentine reform, usefully aided by some martyrs' blood. …

Murray, James. Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi+353 pp. $108.00 (cloth).

Murray, James. <i>Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi+353 pp. $108.00 (cloth).

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland. Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590 – By James Murray

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland. Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590 – By James Murray

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Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590

In the words of the author, this book is a ‘particular, local study’ of the course of the Reformation in the diocese of Dublin during the period 1534 to 1590. But it is much more than that. What Murray presents here is a seminal study of the factors determining the course, and ultimate failure, of the Reformation in Ireland. The focus on the archdiocese of Dublin, the wealthiest and most influential diocese of the Church of Ireland, allows Murray to investigate not only the internal ecclesiastical quagmire which was the Irish church in the sixteenth century, but also, crucially, its interactions with the Dublin government. In doing so Murray moves beyond a strictly ‘particular, local study’ to present the reader with an extensive disquisition on the politics of the English Reformation in Ireland. For many reasons this work deserves to become a standard textbook for the period, not least its masterly introduction which situates and explains the choice of topic in a dazzling summary of the current debate concerning the process of reformation in sixteenth-century Ireland. Murray acknowledges the dearth of sources of the kind common to English and continental exponents of such ‘local’ studies: in the absence of church wardens’ accounts and a corresponding lack of visitations records—sources which provide the backbone of similar studies in England—Murray cannot hope to provide an examination of the grass-roots reformation. He therefore turns the focus onto high politics and the often precarious power games initiated by successive archbishops of Dublin.

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi+353 pp. $120.00 cloth.

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi+353 pp. $120.00 cloth. - Volume 79 Issue 2

James Murray. Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+353. $120.00 (cloth).

James Murray. Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+353. $120.00 (cloth).

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: clerical resistance and political conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534-1590

Introduction 1. 'Handmaid' of the English church: the diocese of Dublin on the eve of the Reformation 2. 'Faithful Catholics of the English nation': patriotism, canon law and the corporate clergy 3. Rebellion and supremacy: Archbishop Browne, clerical opposition and the enforcement of the early Reformation, 1534-40 4. 'God's laws and ours together': Archbishop Browne, political reform and the emergence of a new religious settlement, 1540-2 5. The rise and fall of the Viceroy's settlement: property, canon law and politics during the St Leger era, 1542-53 6. Archbishop Dowdall and the restoration of Catholicism in Dublin, 1553-5 7. Rejuvenation and survival: the old religion during the episcopacy of Hugh Curwen, 1555-67 8. Archbishop Loftus and the drive to protestantise Dublin, 1567-90 Afterword Appendix I. The division of administrative responsibilities between the two Dublin cathedrals Appendix II. The parishes of the diocese of Dublin, 1530-1600.

James Murray . Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590.(Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.)New York : Cambridge University Press . 2009 . Pp. xvi, 353. $120.00.

James Murray . Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590.<i>(Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.)</i>New York : Cambridge University Press . 2009 . Pp. xvi, 353. $120.00.

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. Pp xvi, 353. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. £60.

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. Pp xvi, 353. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. £60. - Volume 36 Issue 144

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland. Clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xvi+358 incl. 3 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £60. 978 0 521 77038 5

Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland. Clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. By James Murray. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xvi+358 incl. 3 tables. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. £60. 978 0 521 77038 5

James M. Murray. Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix + 353 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978–0–521–77038–5.

James M. Murray. Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix + 353 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978–0–521–77038–5. - Volume 62 Issue 4

Munio, obispo de Calahorra, 1066 a 1080, ¿defensor del rito mozárabe?: una revisión de las pruebas documentales

The episcopate of Munio, Bishop of Calahorra (1066-1080) coincided with the suppression within the Castilian church of the indigenous Mozarabic rite, and its substitution with the Roman liturgy. For centuries, historians of the Spanish church have upheld the tradition, based on the evidence of eleventh- and twelfth-century sources, that Munio occupied a position at the forefront of a powerful Castilian clerical defence of the Mozarabic rite. However, careful analysis of the documentary evidence reveals this tradition to be a fallacy, and the source from which it principally sprung to constitute a deliberate exercise in misinformation. On the other hand, the circumstances that surrounded the fabrication, towards the beginning of the twelfth century, of the story of Munio’s defensive heroism have interesting implications that may reveal different ways in which Munio of Calahorra can be associated with a clerical resistance to the imposition of the Roman rite.

Clerical Opposition in Habsburg Castile

Church–State relations in early modern Europe were often turbulent. Princes and clergy regularly clashed over ecclesiastical appointments, jurisdiction and finances. Such conflicts were common in both Protestant and Catholic principalities. Yet, for many historians, Habsburg Castile is still the Catholic Monarchy, and any conflict between Church and State there is seen as an aberration. This article argues that clerical opposition in Castile was not unusual, and it calls into question the conventional views that the Castilian Church had a monolithic structure and was subservient to the Crown. The article focuses primarily on clerical resistance to taxation and examines the methods used by the clergy to curtail royal demands, such as the cesación a divinis, appeals to the king and the pope, and preaching against the Crown.

For God or Country: History Textbooks and the Secularization of Chilean Society, 1840–1890

The relations between Church and State in nineteenth-century Chile remained relatively calm when compared with the tumultuous events occurring in Mexico during the same era. While the question of the role of the Church in a secular society divided both nations, it was resolved in Chile without violence or bloodshed. Although President Manuel Montt's assertion of civil authority in the ‘affair of the sacristan’ in 1856 angered the clerical hierarchy, there was little that could be done by a church of less wealth, power and influence than in Mexico. Yet, the slow erosion of colonial fueros was not accepted without clerical resistance, which delayed the constitutional reforms limiting the Church's powers in Chile until the 1880s.