Despite the best efforts of the English government, Elizabethan Ireland remained resolutely Catholic. Hutchinson examines this ‘failure’ of the Protestant Reformation. He argues that the emerging political concept of the absolutist state forms a crucial link between English policy in Ireland and the aims of the Calvinist reformers.
| ISBN: | 9781138053090 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2017 |
| Author: | Mark A Hutchinson |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World |
| Genres: |
European history Christianity History of religion |