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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 Lion’s Den: The Jesuit Mission in Elizabethan England and Wales, 1580–1603 (2011).
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Introduction
Robert E. Scully, S.J.
1 Historical Overview, ca. 1530–1829
William J. Sheils
Part 1
The Community and Its Place in the National and International Scene
2 The English Secular Clergy, 1559–1829
Peter Phillips
3 The Jesuits and Other Male Religious Orders in Britain and Ireland
Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
4 Recusant Women Religious The Communities in a National and International Context
Caroline Bowden
5 Catholic Laywomen Activist Piety, Agency, and Strategic Resistance
Colleen M. Seguin
6 Catholic Nobility and Gentry from Reformation to Emancipation
Susan M. Cogan
7 “When Time Should Serve” The Long Wait of Lay Catholic Exiles
Anne R. Throckmorton
8 Becoming Irish Catholics Ireland, 1534–1690
John McCafferty
9 Catholics in Scotland Overview and Literary Culture
Jane Stevenson
10 Scottish Catholic Material Culture
Peter Davidson and David W. Walker
11 Catholics in Wales
Hannah Thomas
Part 2
Opposition: Within and Without
12 Domestic Disorder Debating Recusancy within the Catholic Community
Robert E. Scully, S.J.
13 Anti-Catholicism Catholics, Protestants, and the “Popery” Problem
Adam Morton
Part 3
Catholic/Recusant Culture
14 Martyrdom and the Catholic Community
Anne Dillon
15 Recusant Literary Culture in England and Wales
Victor Houliston
16 Political and Theological Culture Monarchies and Republics in Recusant Thought
Gary W. Jenkins
17 English Catholic Material Culture, 1558–1688
Janet Graffius
18 Underground Devotions The Day-to-Day Challenges of Practicing an Illegal Faith
Lisa McClain
19 The Catholic Enlightenment in Britain and Ireland
Jonathan 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.