Divided Loyalties? Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Lay Roles in the Catholic Church, 1534-1829

• Main Author: McClain, Lisa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Religion-History.; Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Social history.; Sociology.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Religion.; Religion and Gender.; Social History.; Gender Studies.

This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829. Filled with richly detailed stories, such as the suppression of Mary Ward's Institute of English Lad...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Devout Outlaws
• Part I
• 2 The New Normal
• 3 Disobedient Women
• 4 Wodehouse's Choice
• 5 Amending the Marriage Contract
• Part II
• 6 The 'Good Catholic'
• 7 Sharing the Job: Cooperation between the Priesthood and Laity
• 8 Where the Catholic Church Draws the Line: Mary Ward vs the Priesthood.