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RELIGION IN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE Edited by Frank Reynolds and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan The University of Chicago, Divinity School A ROUTLEDGE SERIES RELIGION IN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE edited by Frank Reynolds & Winnifred Fallers Sullivan 1. LAS ABEJAS Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas Marco Tavanti 2. THE SPIRIT OF DEVELOPMENT Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe Erica Bornstein 3. EXPLAINING MANTRAS Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra Robert A.Yelle 4. LITURGY WARS Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich Theodore M.Vial 5. HEAVENLY JOURNEYS, EARTHLY CONCERNS The Legacy of the Mi’raj in the Formation of Islam Brooke Olson Vuckovic LEST WE BE DAMNED PRACTICAL INNOVATION AND LIVED EXPERIENCE AMONG CATHOLICS IN PROTESTANT ENGLAND, 1559–1642 Lisa McClain Routledge New York & London Published in 2004 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 www.routledge-ny.com Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE www.routledge.co.uk Roudedge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2004 by Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Catalogmg-in-Publication Data McClain, Lisa, 1965– Lest we be damned: practical innovation and lived experience among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559–1642/by Lisa McClain. p. cm.—(Religion in history, society & culture; 6) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-96790-2 (alk. paper) 1. Catholics—England—History—16th century. 2. England—Church history—16th cen tury. 3. Catholics—England—History—17th century. 4. England—Church history—17th century. I. Titles. II. Series. BX1492.M37 2003 282’.42’09031–dc21 2003014634 ISBN 0-203-50499-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-57915-1 (Adobe eReader Format) For Doug, Anna, and Will Contents Series Editors’ Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix List of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 “Knitting the Remnants”: Catholic Challenges 19 and Priorities in Protestant England Chapter 2 A “Church” without a Church: English 59 Catholics’ Search for Religious Space Chapter 3 Using What’s at Hand: English Catholic 86 Reinterpretations of the Rosary Chapter 4 Reclaiming the Body: Receiving the Benefits of 116 the Mass in the Absence of Priests Chapter 5 Lawyers, Jailbirds, Grocers, and Diplomats: 150 Catholic Options for Piety and Community in London Chapter 6 Katholik Kernow: Catholics of Cornwall 183 Chapter 7 “Border of Wickedness?”: Catholics in the 217 Northern Shires Chapter 8 From the Old Comes the New. Catholic Identities 250 and Alternative Forms of Community Conclusion 290 Notes 295 Select Bibliography 389 Index 404 Series Editors’ Foreword RELIGION IN HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE BRINGS TO A WIDER audience work by outstanding young scholars who are forging new agendas for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. As editors, we have two specific goals in mind. First, volumes in this series illuminate theoretical understandings of religion as a dimension of human culture and society. Understanding religion has never been a more pressing need. Longstanding academic habits of either compartmentalizing or ignoring religion are breaking down. With the entry of religion into the academy, however, must come a fully realized conversation about what religion is and how it interacts with history, society, and culture. Each book in this series employs and refines categories and methods of analysis that are intrinsic to the study of religion, while simultaneously advancing our knowledge of the character and impact of particular religious beliefs and practices in a specific historical, social, or cultural context. Second, this series is interdisciplinary. The academic study of religion is conducted by historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others. Books in the series bring before the reader an array of disciplinary lenses through which religion can be creatively and critically viewed. Based on the conviction that the instability of the category itself generates important insights, “religion” in these works encompasses and/or informs a wide range of religious phenomena, including myths, rituals, ways of thought, institutions, communities, legal traditions, texts, political movements, artistic production, gender roles, and identity formation. In this, the sixth book in the series, Lisa McClain provides an engrossing narrative about the struggle of a religious community to survive in the face of a powerful, state-supported effort to destroy its inherited sense of identity and to eradicate its influence. The story that McClain recounts occurs in England during a time when Protestant viii reformers, strongly supported by the monarchy, sought to forcefully impose their version of Christianity on a population that included a significant Roman Catholic component. In the story itself, McClain focuses attention on the popular side of Catholic religion. She describes the creative partnership of the lower, pastoral clergy with the engaged segment of the laity as the locus of innovation through which the Catholic community was able to maintain and adapt its liturgical practice on the one hand and its inherited sense of identity on the other. At the same time McClain artfully evokes an appreciation for the kind of lived experience that she associates with ordinary believers and practitioners who combined a firm commitment to their Catholic heritage with a practical flexibility that enabled them to adapt to a radically changed religio-political order. As editors we are pleased to include within the Religion in History, Society, and Culture series a book that brings a fresh perspective to a familiar topic—early modern Catholicism—using the new theoretical and methodological approaches being developed by cultural historians and historians of religion. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, The University of Chicago, Divinity School Frank Reynolds, The University of Chicago, Divinity School Acknowledgments THIS BOOK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED WITHOUT THE AID OF numerous professional colleagues, friends, and family members who supported me throughout the various phases of the process. Thank you in particular to Brian P.Levack and Ann W.Ramsey whose guidance and commentary have proven invaluable. I also extend my appreciation to those scholars who have reviewed parts of the work at various stages of the process and from whose learned advice I have benefited immeasurably: Myron Gutmann, Alison Frazier, Christopher Ellison, Shelton Woods, Todd Shallat, Charles Odahl, Sharon Arnault, Geoff Clayton, Rob Stephens, Clayton Whisnant, Paul Hagenloh, and Andrew McFarland. My thanks to Fr.David Wettstein for his insights into the relationships between clergy and laity. In the editing stages of this book, the aid of Frank Reynolds, the series editor, and of Doug Sims proved invaluable. I would also like to extend my appreciation to the various institutions whose assistance made the completion of this study possible: Boise State University for the time to write provided by a Faculty Research Associateship, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation for the Charlotte W.Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, the Philanthropic Educational Organization for the P.E.O.Scholar Award, and the University of Texas for the Bess Heflin Endowed Fellowship and the David Bruton Fellowship. Professionals at many archives in the U.S. and the U.K. also justly deserve acknowledgment for their advice and ability to retain a sense of humor throughout my investigative quest, in particular Pat Fox and the staff at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and also the archivists at the British Library, the Public Record Offices at Kew, Truro, Chester, and Newcastle, Durham Cathedral, York Minster Library, Chester City Archive, and the National Archives of Scotland, as well as the staff at the Borthwick Institute,

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