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A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland
From Reformation to Emancipation
Series: - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 101
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A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland is an edited collection of nineteen essays written by a range of experts and some newer scholars in the areas of early modern British and Irish history and religion. In addition to English Catholicism, developments in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well as ongoing connections and interactions with Continental Catholicism, are well incorporated throughout the volume. Many currents of the latest scholarship are addressed and advanced, including religious minorities and exiles, women and gender studies, literary and material culture, religious identity construction, and, within Catholic studies, the role of laity as well as clergy, and of female as well as male religious. In all, these essays significantly advance the movement of early modern British and Irish Catholicism from the historiographical margins to an evolving, but ultimately more capacious and accurate, historical mainstream.
Robert E. Scully, S.J., S.T.L. (1996, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley), J.D. (1984, Seton Hall University) is Professor of History and Law at Le Moyne College. He has published widely in early modern British and Catholic history, including Into the Lionâs Den: The Jesuit Mission in Elizabethan England and Wales, 1580â1603 (2011).
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List of Illustrations
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
ââRobert E. Scully, S.J.
1âHistorical Overview, ca. 1530â1829
ââWilliam J. Sheils
Part 1
The Community and Its Place in the National and International Scene
2âThe English Secular Clergy, 1559â1829
ââPeter Phillips
3âThe Jesuits and Other Male Religious Orders in Britain and Ireland
ââThomas M. McCoog, S.J.
4âRecusant Women Religious The Communities in a National and International Context
ââCaroline Bowden
5âCatholic Laywomen Activist Piety, Agency, and Strategic Resistance
ââColleen M. Seguin
6âCatholic Nobility and Gentry from Reformation to Emancipation
ââSusan M. Cogan
7ââWhen Time Should Serveâ The Long Wait of Lay Catholic Exiles
ââAnne R. Throckmorton
8âBecoming Irish Catholics Ireland, 1534â1690
ââJohn McCafferty
9âCatholics in Scotland Overview and Literary Culture
ââJane Stevenson
10âScottish Catholic Material Culture
ââPeter Davidson and David W. Walker
11âCatholics in Wales
ââHannah Thomas
Part 2
Opposition: Within and Without
12âDomestic Disorder Debating Recusancy within the Catholic Community
ââRobert E. Scully, S.J.
13âAnti-Catholicism Catholics, Protestants, and the âPoperyâ Problem
ââAdam Morton
Part 3
Catholic/Recusant Culture
14âMartyrdom and the Catholic Community
ââAnne Dillon
15âRecusant Literary Culture in England and Wales
ââVictor Houliston
16âPolitical and Theological Culture Monarchies and Republics in Recusant Thought
ââGary W. Jenkins
17âEnglish Catholic Material Culture, 1558â1688
ââJanet Graffius
18âUnderground Devotions The Day-to-Day Challenges of Practicing an Illegal Faith
ââLisa McClain
19âThe Catholic Enlightenment in Britain and Ireland
ââJonathan Wright
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Index
For upper division undergraduates and above interested in early modern Britain and Ireland, connections to the broader European Reformation(s), and developments in Catholic studies, including gender, laity, martyrdom, exiles, and material culture. Keywords: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Enlightenment, England, exiles, gender, gentry, laity, literary/material culture, martyrdom, religious orders, Scotland, Wales.