This article examines the formation of Catholic communities and the roles played by religious politics and kinship networks within that process. It contributes to historiographical debates about early modern English Catholics' self-identification in religio-political terms, suggesting that intra-Catholic feuds were not the sole preserve of the Catholic missionary clergy. It uses the Petre family, barons of Writtle in Essex, as a case study by which to argue that these seemingly inward-looking debates were actually about how the community understood itself in relation to the state and, as such, were fundamental in the process of English Catholic community construction.

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县无国界？宗教政治、亲属关系网络和天主教社区的形成

本文探讨了天主教社区的形成以及宗教政治和亲属关系网络在该过程中所扮演的角色。它有助于关于早期现代英国天主教徒在宗教政治方面的自我认同的历史学辩论，表明天主教内部的仇恨并不是天主教传教士的唯一保留。它使用埃塞克斯郡 Writtle 的男爵 Petre 家族作为案例研究，论证这些看似内向的辩论实际上是关于社区如何理解自己与国家的关系，因此，在这个过程中至关重要英国天主教社区建设。