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Counties without Borders? Religious Politics, Kinship Networks and the Formation of Catholic Communities

Kelly, James E.

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This article examines the formation of Catholic communities and the roles played by religious politics and kinship networks within that process. It contributes to historiographical debates about early modern English Catholics' self-identification in religio-political terms, suggesting that intra-Catholic feuds were not the sole preserve of the Catholic missionary clergy. It uses the Petre family, barons of Writtle in Essex, as a case study by which to argue that these seemingly inward-looking debates were actually about how the community understood itself in relation to the state and, as such, were fundamental in the process of English Catholic community construction.

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Kelly, J. E. (2018). Counties without Borders? Religious Politics, Kinship Networks and the Formation of Catholic Communities. Historical Research, 91(251), 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12209

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Nov 28, 2017
Publication Date Feb 1, 2018
Deposit Date Oct 18, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Historical Research
Print ISSN 0950-3471
Electronic ISSN 1468-2281
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 91
Issue 251
Pages 22-38
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12209

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Kelly, J. E. (2018), Counties without borders? Religious politics, kinship networks and the formation of Catholic communities. Historical Research, 91(251): 22-38, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12209. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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