Margaret Joyce "Joy" Rowe (1926 - 7 September 2020) was a British historian. She was a pioneering historian of the study of Catholicism in East Anglia, for which she was awarded a Diocesan Medal by the Diocese of East Anglia on her 90th Birthday in 2016.
Biography
In the 1950s Rowe taught history at a convent school at Hengrave Hall run by the Religious of the Assumption. She published a history of Catholicism in the Bury St Edmunds area in 1958. She was a mentor to the ecclesiastical historian Diarmaid MacCulloch. She dedicated much of her list to the study of Parish records in East Anglia and the presence and role of Catholic communities in this area. Rowe was a leading member of the Catholic Record Society and the Suffolk Records Society.
Rowe was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 5 May 2002.
Publications
- Rowe, J. 1958 (reprinted 1980) "The Story of Catholic Bury St. Edmunds". Bury St Edmunds.
- Rowe, J. 1959. âÂÂThe Medieval Hospitals of Bury St EdmundsâÂÂ, Medical History 2(4), 253âÂÂ63.
- Rowe, J. and McGrath, P. 1960. âÂÂThe Recusancy of Sir Thomas CornwallisâÂÂ, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 28 (1960), 226âÂÂ71.
- Rowe, J. 1964. "Ixworth Abbey, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: A Short History and Simple Guide" (Ixworth: privately printed).
- Rowe, J. and McGrath, P. 1984. âÂÂThe Marian Priests under Elizabeth IâÂÂ, Recusant History 17(2), 103âÂÂ20.
- Rowe, J. and McGrath, P. 1986. âÂÂAnstruther analysed: the Elizabethan Seminary PriestsâÂÂ, Recusant History 18(1) 1âÂÂ13,
- Rowe, J. 1988. âÂÂRoman Catholic Recusancyâ in David Dymond and Edward Martin (eds), An Historical Atlas of Suffolk. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council, 88âÂÂ89.
- Rowe, J. and McGrath, P. 1989. âÂÂThe Elizabethan Priests: their Harbourers and HelpersâÂÂ, Recusant History 19(3), 209âÂÂ33.
- Rowe, J. 1991. âÂÂSuffolk Sectaries and Papists, 1596âÂÂ1616â in E. S. Leedham-Green (ed.), "Religious Dissent in East Anglia. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 37âÂÂ41.
- Rowe, J. and McGrath, P. 1991. âÂÂThe Imprisonment of Catholics for Religion under Elizabeth IâÂÂ, Recusant History 20(4), 415âÂÂ35.
- Rowe, J. 1994. âÂÂRoman Catholic Recusancyâ in T. Ashwin and A. Davison (eds), An Historical Atlas of Norfolk. Norwich: Norfolk Museums Service, 138âÂÂ9.
- Rowe, J. 1996. âÂÂThe 1767 Census of Papists in the Diocese of Norwich: The Social Composition of the Roman Catholic Communityâ in David Chadd (ed.), Religious Dissent in East Anglia III. Norwich: University of East Anglia, 187âÂÂ234.
- Rowe, J. 1998. âÂÂâÂÂThe Lopped TreeâÂÂ: The Re-formation of the Suffolk Catholic Communityâ in Nicholas Tyacke (ed.), EnglandâÂÂs Long Reformation 1500âÂÂ1800. Abingdon: UCL Press, 167âÂÂ94.
- Rowe, J. 2004. âÂÂProtestant Sectaries and Separatists in Suffolk 1594âÂÂ1630âÂÂ, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 7(4), 225âÂÂ34.
- Rowe, J. and Young, F. 2016 âÂÂEast Anglian Catholics in the Reign of Elizabeth, 1559âÂÂ1603â in Francis Young (ed.), Catholic East Anglia: A History of the Catholic Faith in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Leominster: Gracewing, 37âÂÂ60.
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