Church and State in Buenos Aires in the Seventeenth Century

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-514
Author(s):  
E. R. Saguier
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Church And State

All Hail to the Archpriest

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lake ◽  
Michael Questier
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The Core ◽  
Public Argument ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Politics

This volume revisits the debates and disputes known collectively in the literature on late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England as the ‘Archpriest Controversy’. We argue that this was an extraordinary instance of the conduct of contemporary public politics and that, in its apparent strangeness, it is in fact a guide to the ways in which contemporaries negotiated the unstable later Reformation settlement in England. The published texts which form the core of the arguments involved in this debate survive, as do several caches of manuscript material generated by the dispute. Together they tell us a good deal about the aspirations of the writers and the networks that they inhabited. They also allow us to retell the progress of the dispute both as a narrative and as an instance of contemporary public argument about topics such as the increasingly imminent royal succession, late Elizabethan puritanism, and the function of episcopacy. Our contention is that, if one takes this material seriously, it is very hard to sustain standard accounts of the accession of James VI in England as part of an almost seamless continuity of royal government, contextualized by a virtually untroubled and consensus-based Protestant account of the relationship between Church and State. Nor is it possible to maintain that by the end of Elizabeth’s reign the fraction of the national Church, separatist and otherwise, which regarded itself or was regarded by others as Catholic had been driven into irrelevance.

The view from the devil’s mountain: Clarendon, Cressy and Hobbes, and the past, present and future of the Church of England

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Seaward
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The lives, and political thought, of Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, and Thomas Hobbes, were closely interwoven. In many ways opposed, their views on the relationship between Church and State have often been seen as less far apart, with Clarendon sharing Hobbes’s Erastianism and concerns about clerical assertiveness in the 1660s. But Clarendon’s writings on Church-State relations during the 1670s provide little evidence of concern about clerical involvement in politics, and demonstrate his vigorous adherence to a fairly conventional view among early seventeenth-century churchmen about the proper boundaries to royal interference in the Church; his worries about attempts to push further the implications of the royal supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs are evident in his writings against Hobbes, as are his even greater anxieties, exacerbated by the conversion of his daughter, the Duchess of York, about the dangers of Roman Catholic encroachment.

Seldenism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott Visconsi
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Table Talk ◽  
Great Scholar ◽  
John Selden

The great scholar and legal thinker John Selden was a subject of contested memory in the politically turbulent years following his death. This article reads the collection Table-Talk as a work of popular constitutional commentary specifically designed to advance, for lay audiences, the scholar’s quasi-Erastian vision of religious toleration and the proper relations between church and state. Selden, in this account, is made legible for all readers as an early voice skeptical of priestcraft and as a leading figure in the doctrines coalescing around the functional separation of church and state in the later seventeenth century.

scholarly journals The separation of church and state as the foundation of religious toleration in Locke’s political thought

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Ivan Matic
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment

The subject of this paper will be the analysis of the question of religious toleration in the political thought of seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke. The first part of the paper will discuss the foundational principles of Locke?s political thought, particularly his contract theory. The second part will be dedicated to situating his positions on freedom of religion within the domain of that theory, accentuating the moment of separation between church and state. The final part will analyze the implications of religious toleration, as well as its limits, upon which Locke?s criterion of freedom of religion will be critically examined.

The Undocumented Lives of William Shakespeare

2016 ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Alan Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Vested Interest ◽  
Property Owner ◽  
Special Weight ◽  
Biographical Tradition

Modern Shakespeare biographies give special weight to details of Shakespeare’s life supported by reference to archival materials. The ‘documentary life’ records only those life-events in which the legal profession, church, and state have a vested interest, producing a ‘documentary life’ with a particular, predictable, shape—producing Shakespeare as a son, husband, and father, a Stratford resident, a property owner, and a sharer in a theatrical company. But this ‘documentary life’ obscures an earlier biographical tradition which is routinely dismissed as apocryphal. This essay aims to take seriously the seventeenth-century tellings of Shakespeare’s life, analysing them not for their ability to tally with the documentary traces but rather for what they say and where and how they say it. They provide a remarkably consistent characterization, and one that is often intriguingly at odds with the supposedly ‘authentic’, documentary Shakespeare.

scholarly journals A Failed Politician, a Disputed Jesuit: Cardinal Johann Eberhard Nithard (1607–81)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-569
Author(s):  
Miguel Córdoba Salmerón
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
State Politics ◽  
Black Legend ◽  
The Church

One of the most controversial Jesuit cardinals was Johann Eberhard Nithard, not only because of the intriguing circumstances of his promotion, but also because he was a favorite of Queen Mariana of Austria, regent of Spain and mother of King Charles ii. The aim of this essay is to examine a series of events in Nithard’s life, focusing in particular on the details surrounding his consecration as bishop and creation as cardinal. This task is performed through an analysis of various sources, many of which—including the Jesuit ones—have been responsible for forging Nithard’s black legend, which resulted in his eventual expulsion from Spain and in distorted narratives of historians of Nithard’s role in the church and state politics in the seventeenth century.

The Gaigneur Clan in the Seventeenth-Century Canada Trade

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.F. Bosher
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Business History ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
History Of ◽  
Trading Firm ◽  
Maritime Community

This essay follows the development of Franco-Canadian maritime trade over the course of the seventeenth century, by documenting the business history of the Gaigneur merchant family, headed by Pierre Gaigneur. The Gaigneurs trading firm sent more ships, goods, and people to Canada during the seventeenth century than any other firm of the era; this essay seeks to determine the reasons for their success. It considers the maritime community of La Rochelle; the Huguenot community; potential signs of religious compromise by the Roman Catholic Gaigneurs when faced with business pressure. The conclusion claims the dual support of both Church and State permitted the expansion of trade and the financial success of the Gaigneut family.

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