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The Reckoned Expense
Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits.
Edited by Thomas M. McCoog S.J.

This volume forms the first modern study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, and through him focuses on a theme that has been attracting growing interest among sixteenth-century historians: the passage from a Catholic to an Anglican England, and the resistance to this move. The essays collected here investigate the historical context of Campion's mission; different aspects of his writing and work; the network of colleagues with whom he was in contact; his relationship with contemporaries such as Sir Philip Sidney; the effect of his English mission; and the legacy he left. THOMAS M. MCCOOG, S.J.is the Archivist of the British province of the Society of Jesus and a member of the Jesuit Historical Institute at Rome.Contributors: FRANCISCO DE BORJA MEDINA, JOHN BOSSY, NANCY POLLARD BROWN, KATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES, DENNIS FLYNN, VICTOR HOULISTON, JOHN J. LAROCCA, COLM LENNON, DAVID LOADES, JAMES MCCONICA, THOMAS M. MCCOOG, THOMAS MAYER, MICHAEL QUESTIER, ALISON SHELL, MICHAEL E. WILLIAMS

 

DETAILS

364 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
13 digit ISBN: 9780851155906
Binding: Hardback
First published: 29/Jun/1996
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: Boydell Press
Subject: History of Religion

BIC class: GBC

STATUS: Out of stock
Details updated on 18/11/2008

Contents
   ``We Are Made a Spectacle': Campion's Dramas'.
1   The spirituality of the restored catholic church (1553-1558) in the context of the counter reformation
David M Loades
2   A test of wills: Cardinal Pole, Ignatius Loyola, and the Jesuits in England
Thomas Mayer
3   The catholic experience in tudor Oxford
James McConica
4   Edmund Campion's Histories of Ireland and reform in tudor Ireland
Colm Lennon
5   Sir Philip Sidney's debt to Edmund Campion
Katherine Duncan-Jones
6   `We are made a spectacle': Campion's dramas
Alison Shell
7   `Playing the Champion': the role of disputation in the Jesuit mission
Thomas M McCoog, S.J.
8   The heart of Robert Persons
John Bossy
9   Why Robert Persons would not be pacified: Edmund Bunny's theft of The Book of Resolution
Victor Houliston
10   `Out of Step': six supplementary notes on Jasper Heywood
Dennis Flynn
11   Robert Southwell: the mission of the written word
Nancy Pollard Brown
12   Intrigues of a Scottish Jesuit at the Spanish Court: unpublished letters of William Crichton to Claudio Acquaviva (Madrid 1590- 1592)
Francisco De B. Medina, S.J.
13   Popery and Pounds: the effect of the Jesuit mission on penal legislation
John La Rocca, S.J.
14   `Like locusts over all the world': conversion, indoctrination and the society of Jesus in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Michael Questier
15   Campion and the English continental seminaries
Michael Williams

Reviews
A major contribution to English Jesuit and recusant history. HISTORY The success of Reckoned Expense, which is an unusual contribution to Tudor history, comes from its presentation of some very recent, and also some very specialised, research on Catholicism in the British Isles during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I, which, refreshingly, moves away from a completely Anglocentric approach to the period. THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Scholars interested in the Jesuits, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, or the English Reformation will find much of interest within it. SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL



 

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