The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England

by Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Michael C. Questier

Book Overview

Thoroughly updated with newly discovered archival material, this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow demonstrates that the complicated and controversial life story of Margaret Clitherow is not as unique as it was once thought. In fact, Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that her case was comparable to those of other separatist females who were in trouble with the law at the same time, in particular Anne Foster, also of York...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350049271
• ISBN13: 9781350049277
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"