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Resurrection and reconstruction of the Meditationes Vitae Christi in early modern England British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Melissa Crofton
This article traces the deployment of the 14th century devotional treatise, The Meditationes Vitae Christi, in late medieval and early modern England. Beginning with a discussion of Nicholas Love’s 1409 translation of the treatise, The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, the article examines how later editors and redactors reshape the treatise for new audiences. Not only does Love’s treatise
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The Richmonds, Palestine and the Catholic Press, 1967-80 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 James Downs
After retiring from a successful diplomatic career in 1966, Sir John Richmond (1909-90) and his wife Diana (1914-97) settled in Durham, where he had accepted a lectureship in Modern Near East History at the University’s School of Oriental Studies. Following the Six-Day War in June 1967, the Richmonds became increasingly concerned at the suffering of Palestinians living in the occupied territories and
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Fr Simon Bordley, eighteenth-century recusant priest, schoolmaster and trader in ‘two-legged cattle’ British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Jack P. Cunningham
Simon Bordley (1709-1799) was a Catholic priest of humble status in rural Lancashire for much of the eighteenth century. Despite his rural location and apparently humble status, he played an important part in supporting the Catholic seminaries in France and Portugal by supplying them with students, material goods and financial assistance. Bordley left behind him a lively correspondence relating to
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‘Master Smokey Swyne’s-Flesh’: Francis Bacon and the responses to the Edward Squire conspiracy British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Alan Stewart
Francis Bacon’s A Letter written out of England to an English Gentleman remaining at Padua, published anonymously around February 1599, reported the alleged plot against the life of Elizabeth I contrived between Edward Squire and the Jesuit Richard Walpole. Widely understood as the official government publication on the Squire affair, it was answered by a number of exiled English Catholic writers,
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London Catholicism, embassy chapels, and religious tolerance in late Jacobean polemic British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Mark Allen
Reacting sharply against the whiggish thesis that religious tolerance was a heritage of the Enlightenment, revisionist scholars have pointed to the many pragmatic concessions people made to tolerate those of other faiths prior to the eighteenth century. While they have underscored the contingent relationship of tolerance with neighbourliness in many important case studies, the historiography portrays
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‘Having drunk heresy with their (mother’s) milk’: English Protestant converts to Catholicism in Malta, 1600–1798 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Frans Ciappara
This article analyses the conversion of 379 English Protestants to Catholicism in Malta between 1600 and 1798. It explores the motivations behind their recantation, the agents of their conversion and the role of dissimulation in discarding their Protestant faith. It ends with two remarks. First, people in the Mediterranean ‘knew no religious frontiers’.1 Malta, like other Mediterranean territories
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Destruction, Deconstruction, and Dereliction: Music for St Thomas of Canterbury during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1530-1600 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Katherine Emery
Between the late-twelfth and early-sixteenth centuries, much music (both liturgical and non-liturgical) was written in honour of St Thomas of Canterbury. However, in the 1530s his cult became a major target for reformers and, in 1538, Henry VIII (1491-1547) ordered the destruction of his shrine and the obliteration of all music written in his honour. This article will examine how music composed to
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Gardens, Religion and Clerical By-Employments: the dual careers of Hugh Hall, Priest-Gardener of the West Midlands British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Susan M. Cogan
Hugh Hall was a highly sought-after gardener in late sixteenth century England. He worked in the Midlands, specifically in Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Northamptonshire, and mostly for Catholic families. Hall was a Catholic priest who resigned his parish living after the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, but continued to perform clerical duties such as saying Mass and hearing confession alongside
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Catholics, property, and the experience of the penal laws in eighteenth-century England: Evidence from the Vincent Eyre Manuscripts British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Joanne E. Myers
This article seeks to nuance our understanding of how the penal laws against Roman Catholics were interpreted in eighteenth-century England and how English Catholics of the era experienced their status as a penalised minority. Using evidence from Ushaw Library’s Vincent Eyre Mansucripts, it examines how propertied Catholics navigated proscriptions against owning and selling property. Although much
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Catholic marriages and family politics: the Vaux children vs. Sir Thomas Tresham British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Katie McKeogh
The recusant brothers-in-law William, third Baron Vaux of Harrowden (1535-95) and Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), are best-known as exemplars of stalwart Catholicism and for their claims of fidelity to queen and country. They rose to prominence for their connection to the Jesuit proto-martyr Edmund Campion in 1581, and Vaux’s daughters Anne and Eleanor are celebrated — or notorious — for their support
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Disputes in the Irish college, Douai (1594–1614) British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Thomas O’Connor
By the late sixteenth century, Irish demand for seminary places was sufficient to warrant the establishment of a dedicated Irish college in Lisbon (1590). This was followed by foundations in Salamanca (1592), Douai (1594) and elsewhere. The great majority were administered by the Society of Jesus, whose Irish members were generally Old English, a term denoting descendants of the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman
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Scandal in Somers town: conspiracism and Catholic schools in early Victorian England British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
The middle years of the nineteenth century are notable in the history of Catholicism in England for the development of the ‘papal aggression’ crisis. Catholic emancipation had been met with suspicion by Protestant groups and this suspicion grew into violent antipathy with the publication by Nicholas Wiseman of ‘Ex Porta Flaminia.’ At the same time that this crisis was emerging, Catholic charitable
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Abbot Edmund Ford, secret agent British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Stella Fletcher
Hugh Edmund Ford (1851–1930), first abbot of the English Benedictine monastery at Downside in Somerset, had a reputation, especially in monastic circles, as a scholarly and reforming monk. He is much less well known than his contemporary confrères, Cardinal Aidan Gasquet and Abbot Cuthbert Butler, lacking Gasquet’s public profile and Butler’s list of much-respected publications. Ford’s considerable
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Why did Pope John Paul II visit Ireland? The 1979 papal visit in context British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Daithí Ó Corráin
Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979 was an iconic moment in the history of twentieth-century Irish Catholicism. It has, however, received little detailed historical scrutiny. Based on state archival and hitherto unavailable diocesan material, this article contextualizes the visit by explaining the pastoral and leadership challenges that confronted the Irish hierarchy. Second, this article
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Matteo Binasco, ed., Luke Wadding, the Irish Franciscans, and Global Catholicism, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, pp. 217, £120, ISBN: 978-0-367-46352-6 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Raymond Gillespie
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Evan Haefeli, ed., Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism, Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. xiv + 344, £31.50, ISBN: 978-0-8139-4491-3 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Christopher P. Gillett
can be used to shed light on Wadding’s Irish world in exile as Thomas O’Connor’s Irish voices from the Spanish Inquisition (Basingstoke, 2016) demonstrates. Luke Wadding is one of those figures from the seventeenth century whose career requires thorough re-evaluation. At the very least this book demonstrates the truth of that statement. Indeed, it does a great deal more. In different ways the essays
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The Poetics of Exile: Gulielmus Laurus the Recusant British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Jane Stevenson
Gulielmus Laurus, a recusant exile and neo-Latin poet from Yorkshire has left a variety of evidence for his existence from 1587 through to the late 1590s, mostly in published verse in which he reflects on his life and experience, protests against the Anglican settlement, and asserts his faith. The article attempts to piece together his biography from the meagre information he gives, and offers two
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From Jacobite to Loyalist: The Career and Political Theology of Bishop George Hay British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Gregory Tirenin
Although Catholics were marginalized and strongly associated with Jacobitism under the early Hanoverians, the reign of George III saw a gradual assimilation of Catholics into mainstream political culture. The Vicars Apostolic of Great Britain played a key role in this process by emphasizing passivity and loyalty. The bishop who most strongly personified this Jacobite to loyalist transition was George
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Engaging the Liberal State II: Cardinal Manning and the Royal Commission of 1886 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Jeffrey von Arx
As Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning had been much involved in negotiations over the Elementary Education Act of 1870 (Forster’s Act), which aimed at establishing a national system of elementary education. By the early 1880s, Manning was dissatisfied with the operation of the Act, because the secular board schools, financed from rates, had become substantial competitors with the voluntary
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The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom and Pilgrimage in England and Wales, c. 1890–1914 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Kathryn Hurlock
The growth in Catholic pilgrimage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is widely acknowledged, but little attention has been paid to how and why many of the mass pilgrimages of the era began. This article will assess the contribution made by the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom to the growth of Catholic pilgrimage. After the Guild’s foundation in 1887, its leadership revived or restored pilgrimages
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Aislinn Muller, The Excommunication of Elizabeth I: Faith, Politics, and Resistance in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1603, Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. x+242, €125.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-42600-9 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Eilish Gregory
ambiguities of confessional allegiances during the Tudor period. What do we mean by Catholic? This was as vexed a question during Mary’s reign as it was before and after her. It is worth noting that critiques of Mary were not only the product of Protestant zeal, but also of a certain Jesuit sensibility later in the sixteenth century, which emphasized her failures of religious reform. Her shortcomings
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How to Study Memories in the Making British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Jan Machielsen
A the end of 1600, the elderly Flemish Jesuit Franciscus Costerus (1532–1619) returned from a pilgrimage to Rome—there had been another Jubilee—carrying two images of Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) and a letter from Claudio Acquaviva, the Society of Jesus’s Superior General. The first larger image had been painted on leather, the second smaller one was oval in shape. The Belgian province, the Society’s
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Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. iii + 278, £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-4223-8 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Freddy C. Domínguez
demise of his personal empire of power and patronage, but he was also a victim of circumstance who, as a low-born royal servant, always depended on Henry’s favour and never had any truly independent power. The book is easy to follow and balances narrative progression with a thematic focus on key areas of Wolsey’s achievements, although I feel each chapter would have benefited from a brief conclusion
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Glenn Richardson, Wolsey, London: Routledge, 2020, pp. xviii + 319, £27.99, ISBN: 9780415684477 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Francis Young
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John Wolffe, Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland Since 1914, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. ix + 197, £85.00, ISBN: 9781350019270 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Joan Redmond
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Kelsey Jackson Williams, The First Scottish Enlightenment. Rebels, Priests, and History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. xv + 351, £70, ISBN: 9780198809692 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Tom Tölle
knowledge of the Counter-Reformation, the early public sphere, and the use of the press in the reconsolidation of Habsburg rule in the Southern Netherlands. Soetaert’s understandable aim for comprehensiveness leaves room for more thorough literary criticism and questions about the cultural impact of transregional exchanges. A case in point is the discussion of the Netherlandish engraver Martin Baes
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Sir Thomas Tresham and the Christian Cabala British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Francis Young
The Christian Cabala, a Christianised version of Jewish mysticism originating in Renaissance Italy, reached England in the early sixteenth century and was met with a variety of responses from English Catholics in the Reformation period. While ‘cabala’ was used as a slur by both Protestant and Catholic polemicists, Robert Persons drew positively from the work of the Italian cabalist Pietro Galatino
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Inventorying St Alban’s College Library in 1767: The Process and its Records British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Marta Revilla-Rivas
St Alban’s English College in Valladolid, established at the height of the Catholic Reformation for the training of English secular clergy under the rule of Spanish Jesuits, underwent an alteration in its management after the expulsion of the religious order from Spain in 1767. As part of this process, numerous valuable archival records were produced which have not, thus far, been studied. This article
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‘Artists Hidden from Human Gaze’: Visual Culture and Mysticism in the Nineteenth-Century Convent British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Kate Jordan
This article offers a reading of nineteenth-century Roman Catholic theology through the sacred art produced by and for women religious. The practices and devotions that the article explores, however, are not those that drew from the institutional Church but rather from the legacies of mysticism, many of which were shaped in women’s religious communities. Scholars have proposed that mysticism was stripped
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David Geiringer, The Pope and the Pill, Sex, Catholicism and Women in Post-War England, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. XII + 213, £80.00, ISBN: 9781526138385 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Caroline Rusterholz
In the last decade, ego-documents, oral history interviews, and the Mass Observation Archive have increasingly been used to trace changes in intimacy and authenticity in twentieth-century Britain and Europe.1 Similarly, demographic historians have used oral histories to better understand the ways religion impacted reproductive behaviours.2 Research by Diane Gervais and Danielle Gauvreau has shown the
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Susan O’Brien, Leaving God for God: The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul in Britain, 1847–2017, London: Dartman, Longman & Todd, 2017, pp. xiv + 448, £20, ISBN: 9780232532883 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 S. Karly Kehoe
faith, came under threat when an ‘odious woman’ [muliercula] in pursuance of a feud with the man who was shielding him, told the authorities where to find him and ‘described the features of the his face’ [eiusque lineamenta vultus descripsit] so they could not mistake him. He was arrested and imprisoned in chains. But ‘certainly he did not eat his bread in prison as a man of leisure, for he was doing
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Irish Jesuit Annual Letters 1604–1674, ed. Vera Moynes, Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2019, pp. xxvii + 1013, €80, ISBN: 9781906865573 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 John Morrill
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Margaret Scull, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1968-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xii + 236, £65, ISBN: 9780198843214 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Jan Freytag
one official report had it, condemning them as ‘very demanding, ungrateful and even obstreperous (pp. 70–71). Tony Gallagher, despite a couple of misstatements, gives a splendid account of the role of Catholic schools not only for the Catholic community but in the context of the general structure of Northern Ireland society. There are also interesting chapters on sport, Catholicism and politics and
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Thomas Paul Burgess, ed., The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. xiii + 263, £110, ISBN: 9783319788036 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Oliver P. Rafferty
to access. As is often the case with studies of women religious, readers may finish Mangion’s book with an appetite for a comparative study on male religious experiences in the same era. Similarly, the depth of Mangion’s research into English experiences is a rallying cry for complementary works to be realised in other national contexts. An inspiration in its originality and rigour, and a pleasure
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Carmen M. Mangion, Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain 1945–90, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. vii + 344, £80.00, ISBN: 9781526140463 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Flora Derounian
couples reach mutual orgasm, it did little to alleviate the spiritual and bodily tensions associated with NFP. Geiringer illuminates the tactics devised by Catholic women to release these sexual and marital tensions, such as masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex. Ultimately, it was these physical and emotional struggles that brought about a change in contraceptive behaviours. At times, Geiringer’s analysis
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Bruno Duriez, Olivier Rota, and Catherine Vialle, eds., Femmes catholiques, femmes engagées: France, Belgique, Angleterre, XXe siècle, Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2019, pp. 205, €22, ISBN: 9782757428597 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée
Unsurprisingly, as she explains, ‘neither the practice of charity nor their relationship with Church and state have had identical or unambiguous meanings’. It is more accurate to describe their work as care than welfare because care was a primary component of the residential homes and training institutions they ran, the social support they provided, and the home visitations and the pastoral parish
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James Kelly, English Convents in Catholic Europe, c. 1600−1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. viii + 226, £75, ISBN: 9781108479967 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Laurence Lux-Sterritt
In this, the authors capture the turmoil as Elizabeth’s reign drew to a close without any official heir, when all parties saw the chance to publicly lobby for their position, not only Catholic but also Protestant. The questions at play touched on religious pluralism, relations between the state and religion, the authority of the monarch and from where it is drawn. On the Catholic side, it was not simply
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Peter Lake and Michael Questier, All Hail to the Archpriest: Confessional Conflict, Toleration, and the Politics of Publicity in Post-Reformation England, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xx + 312, £35.00, ISBN: 9780198840343 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 James E. Kelly
have granted a deeper insight into the social, political, and economic repercussions of his conversion. Piers himself refers suggestively to the ‘troubles crosses or damadges wch I have sustained since I came into this land [i.e. Ireland]’ (p. 216), but Mac Cuarta offers only a brief allusion as to what these difficulties might have been. Further reflection upon Piers’s possible motivations for writing
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Liam Peter Temple, Mysticism in Early Modern England, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019, pp. x + 221, £60.00, ISBN: 9781783273935 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Francis Young
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Victoria Van Hyning, Convent Autobiography: Early Modern English Nuns in Exile, Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2019, pp. xxviii + 388, £85, ISBN: 978-0-19-726657-1 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Jaime Goodrich
ten by Edmund Campion, which are currently held in private archives. Jan Graffius’s chapter contains beautiful photographs of some of the relics and reliquary illustrations in the collections of Stonyhurst College. The appendix at the end of Ana Sáez-Hidalgo’s chapter provides a transcription of the book inventories she examined in the Escorial Library. The additional resources that the volume provides
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James E. Kelly and Hannah Thomas, eds., Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789: ‘The world is our house’?, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. xiv + 371, €140.00, ISBN: 978-90-04-36266-6 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Aislinn Muller
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Aidan Nichols, Alban and Sergius. The Story of a Journal, Leominster: Gracewing, 2019, pp. xii + 514, £25, ISBN: 978-0-85244-937-0 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Peter Webster
adult learners alike. Another omission is Scottish Catholic seminary education and Scottish Catholic elite education, neither of which, admittedly, were directly related or relevant to the Education (Scotland) Acts discussed. A volume on Catholic education and schooling in Scotland might have, however, mentioned a key development in the education of Scottish Catholic priests: the junior seminary of
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Dynastic history from a Catholic perspective British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Susan Doran
As is evident from the title, the link between the ‘Reformation’ and royal dynastic politics in England and Scotland is the subject of Professor Michael Questier’s new book. Like other scholars, Questier recognises that Britain’s religion depended upon the outcome of royal biology and succession politics, although unlike many of them he chooses to start his story in 1558, to cover what he calls the
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Stephen J. McKinney and Raymond McCluskey, eds., A History of Catholic Education and Schooling in Scotland: New Perspectives, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. x + 207, €89.99, eBook, ISBN 978-1-137-51370-0 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Iida Saarinen
lums and laundries into the mid-twentieth century, and to grapple with the changes in which the sisters operated, was ambitious. At the end of the book, the reader is somewhat frustrated by a lack of analysis, and the failure by the author to position this history within the history of women religious, social history, Catholic Church history, and the history of education. While historians, and indeed
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Cara Delay, Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism, 1850–1950, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019, pp. x + 253, £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-5261-3639-8 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Niamh NicGhabhann
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The current state of Newman scholarship British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Peter B. Nockles
The volume of publications on, let alone by, John Henry Newman, is now so immense that they could scarcely be surveyed in a single article. However, the Victorian cardinal’s recent canonization provides an opportunity to offer an overview of the more significant recent contributions towards and salient trends in Newman scholarship. Even prior to the recent and ongoing outpouring of studies on Newman
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The pope’s man in London: Anglo-Vatican relations, the nuncio question and Irish concerns, 1938-82 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Daithí Ó Corráin
Although a British mission to the Holy See was established in 1914, the diplomatic relationship was not on a basis of reciprocity. From 1938 the pope was represented in London not by a nuncio (the Vatican equivalent of an ambassador) but by an apostolic delegate whose mission was to the hierarchy alone and not the British government. The evolution of the nuncio question sheds light on the nature of
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Engaging the liberal state: Cardinal Manning and Irish home rule British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Jeffrey von Arx
In the course of his long career (1865–1892) as Archbishop of Westminster and head of England’s Catholic Church, Henry Edward Manning articulated a position on the engagement of voluntary religious organizations like the Church with the liberal state, now understood, at least in the British context, as religiously neutral and responsive to public opinion through increasingly democratic forms of government
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Situating performance in early modern England British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Adrian Streete
Matthew J. Smith, Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral Wagon, Street. ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern, IndianaL University of Notre Dame Press, 2019, pp. xi-xiii + 388, ISBN 9780268104658.
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Power in vulnerability: widows and priest holes in the early modern English Catholic community British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-08 Jennifer Binczewski
Catholics in post-Reformation England faced new challenges in their resolution to remain faithful to Rome following the passage of anti-Catholic laws in the 1580s. These legislative attempts to root out Catholicism resulted in the creation of a clandestine community where private households became essential sites for the survival of Catholic worship. This article extends prior studies of the role of
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Irish soldiers in Loreto and Rome: a pilgrimage, and an employment request c.1609 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Brian Mac Cuarta
Scholarly attention to the Irish Catholic experience on the Continent in the early Stuart era is increasing.1 Interest in Irish pilgrimage to continental sanctuaries in the early modern period is one facet of that broader historiographical trend. However the surviving evidence tends to favour the travels of those of higher social standing, and it is their experience which has received attention.2 The
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‘Low & plain stile’: poetry and piety in English Benedictine convents, 1600–1800 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Jaime Goodrich
This article examines the functional nature of English Benedictine poetry in order to understand the bespoke literary systems that flourished within convent settings. Even as form has emerged as a primary concern within scholarship on early modern women writers, so too are literary critics starting to show interest in the early modern convent as a site of literary production. Uniting these two scholarly
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Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity? British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Hilary L. Turner
On two occasions, in 1580–1 and 1587, the Worcestershire gentleman Ralph Sheldon of Beoley and Weston (1537–1613) undertook to attend services in his parish church. This article seeks to make sense of these occasions of ‘conformity’, in the context of the situation and choices facing Catholics in Protestant England. It argues that Ralph consciously rejected the Jesuit message about non-attendance at
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Catholic refuge and the printing press: Catholic exiles from England, France and the Low Countries in the ecclesiastical province of Cambrai British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Alexander Soetaert
The Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai may sound unfamiliar to modern readers. The bishopric of Cambrai dates to the sixth century but only became an archdiocese and, consequently, the centre of a church province in the sixteenth century. The elevation of the see resulted from the heavily contested reorganization of the diocesan map of the Low Countries by King Philip II in 1559. The new province included
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Tyrolean stigmata in England: the cross-cultural voyage of the Catholic supernatural, 1841–1848 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Kristof Smeyers, Leonardo Rossi
This article considers the transcultural dynamic between English Catholicism and mainland Europe in the early 1840s through the lens of the reception of two famous Tyrolean women bearing the stigmata. After the publication of the account of their supernatural qualities by John Talbot, sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, Waterford, and Wexford they became the controversial subject of the heated debates on
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Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King, eds., The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. xvi + 607, £110, ISBN: 9780198718284 British Catholic History (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 Michael D. Hurley