Directory of Tudor Resources

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History of Catholicism in the Tudor period (1485 - 1603). During this time Catholicism went from being the recognised religion of the state to a persecuted minority church.

Resources in This Category

• Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585)

  http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/er85.html
  Mandating the death penalty for English born Jesuits.

• Fox's Book of Martyrs

  http://bible.christiansunite.com/foxindex.shtml
  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.

• Suppression of Monasteries in England

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10455a.htm
  A Catholic view of the suppression of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.

• The Act Against Recusants (1593)

  http://history.hanover.edu/texts/engref/er87.html
  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.

• The Question of Dissimulation Among Elizabethan Catholics

  http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1957/Swan.htm
  Article by C.M.J.F. Swan in the 1957 Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report. Considers those Catholics who outwardly conformed, either by taking the Oath of Supremacy or by attending the government-mandated Protestant church services.

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