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The reconstruction of the Church of Ireland : Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian reforms, 1633-1641 / John McCafferty.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in early modern British historyPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511350115
  • 0511350112
  • 9780511495908
  • 0511495900
  • 9780521643184
  • 052164318X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland.DDC classification:
  • 283.415 22
LOC classification:
  • BX5500 .M33 2007
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Prologue: Ireland's English reformation -- Raising up the Church of Ireland: John Bramhall and the beginnings of reconstruction, 1633-1635 -- English codes and confession for Ireland, 1633-1636 -- The bishops in the ascendant, 1635-1640 -- Enforcing the new order, 1635-1640 -- The downfall of reconstruction, 1640-1641 -- Conclusion: reconstruction as reformation.
Review: "Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry. This study, which is centred on Bramhall, examines how these three men embarked on a policy for the established church which not only represented a break with a century of reforming tradition but also sought to make the tiny Irish church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms. Dr McCafferty shows how accompanying canonical changes were explicitly implemented for notice and eventual adoption in England and Scotland. However, within eight years the experiment was blown apart and reconstruction denounced as subversive. Wentworth, Laud and Bramhall faced consequent disgrace, trial, death or exile."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Ireland's English reformation -- Raising up the Church of Ireland: John Bramhall and the beginnings of reconstruction, 1633-1635 -- English codes and confession for Ireland, 1633-1636 -- The bishops in the ascendant, 1635-1640 -- Enforcing the new order, 1635-1640 -- The downfall of reconstruction, 1640-1641 -- Conclusion: reconstruction as reformation.

"Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric, John Bramhall, followed the new viceroy and became, in less than one year, Bishop of Derry. This study, which is centred on Bramhall, examines how these three men embarked on a policy for the established church which not only represented a break with a century of reforming tradition but also sought to make the tiny Irish church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms. Dr McCafferty shows how accompanying canonical changes were explicitly implemented for notice and eventual adoption in England and Scotland. However, within eight years the experiment was blown apart and reconstruction denounced as subversive. Wentworth, Laud and Bramhall faced consequent disgrace, trial, death or exile."--Jacket