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Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England
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Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580-1610
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Artikel-Nr:
9780754658405
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.09.2007
Seiten:
228
Autor:
Victor Houliston
Gewicht:
499 g
Format:
234x156x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Victor Houliston is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
This book provides a study of the writing career of Robert Persons, leader of the Elizabethan Jesuits, and seen as an apostolate as well as a polemical contestation. It relates Persons's interventions in various controversies during the period 1580-1610 to the formative purposes of the Christian Directory (1582), his famous and phenomenally successful work of devotion. This book was originally known as the Book of Resolution, which also refers to Persons's indefatigability as a writer. The study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the polemical context of post-Reformation Catholicism in England, and to the Jesuit notion of the 'apostolate of writing'.
Publishers' Note; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations; Chapter One The Legend of Father Parsons; Chapter Two The English Mission: Writing The Christian Directory; Chapter Three The Spanish Connection: Satirizing Burghley; Chapter Four The Myth of England's Catholic Destiny: Persons's Political Vision; Chapter Five Reclaiming the Past: Combating Foxe and Coke; Chapter Six A Jesuit Apologia: Appellant Abuse; Chapter Seven Making England Safe for Catholicism: Liberty of Conscience under James; Chapter Eight Mastering the Polemical Scene;