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- Thomas Stapleton (Henfield, Sussex, July 1535 – Leuven, 12 October 1598) was an English Catholic priest and controversialist.
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Thomas Stapleton (Henfield, Sussex, July 1535 – Leuven, 12 October 1598) was an English Catholic priest and controversialist. Life. He was the son of William Stapleton, one of the Stapletons of Carlton, Yorkshire.
R (Reynolds) Thomas Stapleton’s The Life and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, trans. by Philip E. Hallett; notes by E. E. Reynolds (Burns and Oates, 1966; Fordham UP, 1984), followed by page and note number.
Jan 14, 2018 · Although unlike St. Thomas More--whom he admired and about whom he wrote in a triple biography of his patrons (St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and More)--Thomas Stapleton was an trained and ordained theologian and priest, in a way he is a successor to More.
Nov 16, 2007 · Tom Stapleton, former professor of paediatrics at the University of Sydney, was what physicists call a singularity, an Anglo-Irishman left over from the time when Britons more or less ran the world with a mixture of arrogance and idealism.
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One winter day in late 1591, the English Catholic exile Thomas Stapleton (1535–1598) happened to be strolling around the market in Antwerp when he spotted two friends standing away from the multitude. They were attentively reading what appeared to be a news pamphlet. When he greeted them and seemed about to pass them by, the men called on Stapleton...
The presence of a vibrant English Catholic community in the Spanish Netherlands played an important role in shaping Flemish opinions of the English and their queen. Just as Netherlandish Protestants had made their way to England and Emden, so English recusants found shelter in the Spanish Netherlands after Elizabeth’s succession to the throne. Roug...
The proclamation encountered by Stapleton on the Antwerp market was the ‘Declaration of Great Troubles against the Realme by a number of Seminarie Priests and Jesuits’, signed by Queen Elizabeth at Richmond on 18 October 1591 (Old Style) and published late the following month.67 Despite its title, the proclamation’s primary target was Philip of Spa...
The Apologia had offered the example of England as a warning to the rebel provinces of Holland and Zeeland: ‘we wished … to supply a healthful document to our Hollanders and Zeelanders so that they do not subject themselves to the yoke of the English, and suffer the same tyranny to be introduced and the same evils to be brought into their provinces...
Knowledge of its authorship has caused Thomas Stapleton’s Apologia pro Rege Catholico Philippo II to be misunderstood. Its striking and remarkably gendered portrayal of Elizabeth must be understood within a Netherlandish context. The work was written, if not exclusively, then at least in large part, for a Netherlandish audience; it therefore also v...
- Jan Machielsen
- 2014
Controversialist, born at Henfield, Sussex, July, 1535; died at Louvain, 12 Oct., 1598. He was the son of William Stapleton, one of the Stapletons of Carlton, Yorkshire. He was educated at the Free School, Canterbury, at Winchester, and at New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow, 18 ...
This article examines the triple biography of Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Becket and Thomas More, published by Thomas Stapleton in 1588 and generally regarded as a work of pious hagiography.
