Early Modern English Catholicism: Identity, Memory and Counter-Reformation is an interdisciplinary collection that brings together leading scholars in the field to demonstrate the significance of early modern English Catholicism as a contributor to national and European Counter-Reformation culture.
This book examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
The contributors to this volume – all leading or rising scholars of early modern studies – conceptualize English Catholicism as a hazardous series of contested territories divided by shifting boundaries, requiring Catholics to navigate ...
Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the ...
Taken together these essays reveal the interlocking relationship between the key themes of identity, memory and Counter-Reformation, assessing the way they shaped English Catholicism, as well as demonstrating its the significance to ...
The term indicates clearly what this book so eloquently demonstrates: that Early Modern Catholicism was an aspect of early modern history, which it strongly influenced and by which it was itself in large measure determined.
This anthology makes available in modern spelling substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
ERL 67), 13 r ; Martin Haile, An Elizabethan Cardinal, William Allen (London: I. Pitman, 1914), 31. On Athansius, see Alvyn Pettersen, “'To Flee or Not to Flee': An Assessment of Athanasius's De Fuga Sua, ” in W. J. Sheils (ed.) ...
This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England--a time of Protestant domination and sometimes persecution. Contributors examine not only devotional, political,...
To approach ' church papists ' as if it were possible to engage in an arithmetical exercise in confessional ... Yet , since their presence is perceived chiefly through a haze of contemporary hostility and prejudice , is it in fact ...
This book is an important contribution to the rediscovery of the writings and culture of the Catholic community and will be of great interest to scholars of early modern literature, history and theology.