English Catholicism, 1680-1830: English Catholic writings on religious controversies 1685-1736

English Catholicism, 1680-1830: English Catholic writings on religious controversies 1685-1736
Author: Michael A. Mullett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2006
Genre: Christian literature, English
ISBN:

This six volume set is a collection of English-language Catholic literature covering the long 18th century which traces the development of English Catholic writing over the 150 years where the community evolved from pariahs to citizens. The set has full editorial apparatus, extensive headnotes & annotations and includes rare texts.

Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe

Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe
Author: Liesbeth Corens
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198812434

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. Their arrival and the foundation of convents and colleges on the Continent as attracted scholarly attention. However, we need to understand their impact beyond that initial moment of change. Confessional Mobility, therefore, looks at the continued presence of English Catholics abroad and how the English Catholic community was shaped by these cross-Channel connections. Corens proposes a new interpretative model of 'confessional mobility'. She opens up the debate to include pilgrims, grand tour travellers, students, and mobile scholars alongside exiles. The diversity of mobility highlights that those abroad were never cut off or isolated on the Continent. Rather, through correspondence and constant travel, they created a community without borders. This cross-Channel community was not defined by its status as victims of persecution, but provided the lifeblood for English Catholics for generations. Confessional Mobility also incorporates minority Catholics more closely into the history of the Counter-Reformation. Long side-lined as exceptions to the rule of a hierarchical, triumphant, territorial Catholic Church, English Catholic have seldom been recognised as an instrumental part in the wider Counter-Reformation. Attention to movement and mission in the understanding of Catholics incorporates minority Catholics alongside extra-European missions and reinforces current moves to decentre Counter-Reformation scholarship.

English Catholicism, 1680-1830: English Catholic writings on religious controversies 1736-1791

English Catholicism, 1680-1830: English Catholic writings on religious controversies 1736-1791
Author: Michael A. Mullett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2006
Genre: Christian literature, English
ISBN:

This six volume set is a collection of English-language Catholic literature covering the long 18th century which traces the development of English Catholic writing over the 150 years where the community evolved from pariahs to citizens. The set has full editorial apparatus, extensive headnotes & annotations and includes rare texts.

The Gothic Ideology

The Gothic Ideology
Author: Diane Long Hoeveler
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783160497

The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.