Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England

Lucy Underwood received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has held research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Durham University and the British School at Rome.

• Introduction PART I: MAKING CATHOLICS Introduction to Part I 1. Call Yourself a Catholic? Methods of Forming Identity 2. Calling their Souls their own: Converting and Claiming 3. Children, Catechesis and Religious Practice PART II: THE PROTESTANT STATE AND CATHOLIC CHILDREN Introduction to Part II 4. The Court of Wards 5. Notable Stratagems: Control of Catholic Children outside the Court of Wards PART III: YOUTH AND CATHOLICISM Introduction to Part III 6. Speaking to the Young 7. Encountering and Participating 8. Authority and Agency 9. Writing Catholic Childhood Coda: A Catholic Household in the 1660s Conclusion Appendix A: The Responsa Scholarum and the Liber Primi Examinis

"Underwood has provided an excellent narrative and analysis of children and young people's encounters with the challenging religious landscape of Tudor-Stuart England. She succeeds in bringing English religious history and English childhood history fruitful conversation. ... Scholars of children and youth constantly wrestle with similar tensions and questions about autonomy; Underwood provides a good working model for analyzing those tensions." (Amy Harris, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 9 (1), 2016)