Victor Houliston

Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England (eBook, ePUB)

Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580-1610

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317169178
• Artikelnr.: 44876674

Autorenporträt

Victor Houliston is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

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