Description: New biography of a Catholic martyr exploring the complicated and controversial story of her demise. >
Brief description: Michael Questier is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Vanderbilt, USA. He also holds an honorary chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham, UK. He is the editor of Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England: Manuscript and Printed Sources in Translation(2010; with G. Crosignani and T. McCoog), and the author of Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625 (2009) and Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640 (2006).
Review Quotes: 'The authors do a superb job of analysing these fault line. They take the time to place Clitherow's story in the context of her family life and political events but they are not afraid of drawing broader conclusions. In their hands Clitherow's sorry tale reasserts itself as one of the most important prisms through which to view the puzzling internecine struggles of Elizabethan Catholicism as well as the contours of early-modern martyrdom. We'll continue to argue about Clitherow; was she saintly or stubborn? The best place to begin any study of this conundrum is this outstanding book.'