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Book Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland written by Christopher Highley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scholars, fixated on the 'winners' in England's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious struggles, have too readily assumed the inevitability of Protestantism's historical triumph and have uncritically accepted the reformers' own rhetorical construction of themselves as embodiments of an authentic Englishness. Christopher Highley interrogates this narrative by examining how Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early seventeenth century contested and shaped discourses of national identity, patriotism, and Englishness. Accused by their opponents of espousing an alien religion, one orchestrated from Rome and sustained by Spain, English Catholics fought back by developing their own self-representations that emphasized how the Catholic faith was an ancient and integral part of true Englishness. After the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, the Catholic imagining of England was mainly the project of the exiles who had left their homeland in search of religious toleration and foreign assistance. English Catholics constructed narratives of their own religious heritage and identity, however, not only in response to Protestant polemic but also as part of intra-Catholic rivalries that pitted Marian clergy against seminary priests, secular priests against Jesuits, and exiled English Catholics against their co-religionists from other parts of Britain and Ireland. Drawing on the reassessments of English Catholicism by John Bossy, Christopher Haigh, Alexandra Walsham, Michael Questier and others, Catholics Writing the Nation foregrounds the faultlines within and between the various Catholic communities of the Atlantic archipelago. Eschewing any confessional bias, Highley's book is an interdisciplinary cultural study of an important but neglected dimension of Early Modern English Catholicism. In charting the complex Catholic engagement with questions of cultural and national identity, he discusses a range of genres, texts, and documents both in print and manuscript, including ecclesiastical histories, polemical treatises, antiquarian tracts, and correspondence. His argument weaves together a rich historical narrative of people, events, and texts while also offering contextualized close readings of specific works by figures such as Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, Thomas Stapleton, and Richard Verstegan.

Book English Convents in Exile  1600 1800  Part I  vol 2

Download or read book English Convents in Exile 1600 1800 Part I vol 2 written by Caroline Bowden and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource.

Book Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature

Download or read book Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature written by Alison Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and to challenge early modern ideas of patronage -- not just patronage in the narrow sense of the immediate economic relations obtaining between client and sponsor, but also patronage as a society-wide system of obligation and reward that itself crystallized a whole culture’s assumptions about order and degree. The works studied in this book -- ranging from Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, written early in the 1590s, to Milton’s Masque Performed at Ludlow Castle, written in 1634 -- are patronage works, either aimed at a specific patron or showing a keen awareness of the larger patronage system. This volume challenges the idea that the early modern world had shrugged off its own medieval past, instead arguing that Protestant writers in the period were actively using the medieval Catholic ideal of the saint as a means to represent contemporary systems of hierarchy and dependence. Saints had been the ideal -- and idealized -- patrons of the medieval world and remained so for early modern English recusants. As a result, their legends and iconographies provided early modern Protestant authors with the perfect tool for thinking about the urgent and complex question of who owed allegiance to whom in a rapidly changing world.

Book Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter Reformation Europe

Download or read book Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter Reformation Europe written by Liesbeth Corens and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of England's break with Rome and gradual reformation, English Catholics took root outside of the country, in Catholic countries across Europe. Confessional Mobility explores their arrival and the foundation of convents and colleges on the Continent as well as their impact beyond that initial moment of change.

Book British Identities and English Renaissance Literature

Download or read book British Identities and English Renaissance Literature written by David J. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of 'Britishness' is under-examined. English history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often overlooks the contribution of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the formation of the British state. Historians describe 'Britain' as a multiple kingdom, with a long history of conflict. In this 2002 volume, a team of leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in light of British history. Prominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volume. This collection opened up a different kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'Britishness'.

Book Popular Antiquities

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  • Author : J. Brand
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  • Release : 1841
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  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Popular Antiquities written by J. Brand and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue    of the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court  Burnham  Bucks

Download or read book Catalogue of the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court Burnham Bucks written by Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Observations on Popular Antiquities

Download or read book Observations on Popular Antiquities written by John Brand and published by London : printed for F.C. and J. Rivington ; Wilkie and Robinson. This book was released on 1841 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England

Download or read book The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England written by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular antiquities of Great Britain  with additions by W C  Hazlitt

Download or read book Popular antiquities of Great Britain with additions by W C Hazlitt written by John Brand and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings   Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Download or read book Proceedings Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society written by Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Book Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club

Download or read book Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club written by Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Book The Giant and the Maypole of Cerne

Download or read book The Giant and the Maypole of Cerne written by Henry Colley March and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Perennial Calendar  and Companion to the Almanack  Illustrating the Events of Every Day in the Year  as Connected with History  Chronology  Botany  Etc  With Useful Rules of Health  Observations on the Weather  Etc  Compiled from Scientific Authorities as Well as from the Manuscripts of Several Distinguished Persons  and Revised and Edited by T  F

Download or read book The Perennial Calendar and Companion to the Almanack Illustrating the Events of Every Day in the Year as Connected with History Chronology Botany Etc With Useful Rules of Health Observations on the Weather Etc Compiled from Scientific Authorities as Well as from the Manuscripts of Several Distinguished Persons and Revised and Edited by T F written by Thomas FORSTER (F.L.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: