Resistance and Compromise : The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Political Non-resistance: 1. Half-hearted non-resistance: the Louvainists 1558?68; 2. Resistance and the return to non-resistance 1569?79; 3. Enthusiastic non-resistance 1580?83; 4. Persecution and non-resistance; 5. The background to non-resistance; Part II. Religious Resistance: 6. Recusancy; 7. Opponents of recusancy; 8. Casuistry and recusancy; 9. Casuistry and the resistance of the laity; 10. Casuistry and the resistance of the clergy; Part III. Political Resistance: 11. The development and exposition of ideas of resistance 1584?96; 12. The Catholic critique of Elizabethan England; 13. Resistance theory; 14. The end of resistance: Persons' 'Memorial of the Reformation of England'; Part IV. Non-resistance Again: 15. Opposition to the ideas of resistance 1584?96; 16. The laity; 17. The Appellants; 18. Robert Persons and non-resistance 1596?1603; Notes; Bibliography; Index.