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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches
A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland is
an edited collection of nineteen essays written by a range of
experts and some newer scholars in the areas of early modern
British and Irish history and religion. In addition to English
Catholicism, developments in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well
as ongoing connections and interactions with Continental
Catholicism, are well incorporated throughout the volume. Many
currents of the latest scholarship are addressed and advanced,
including religious minorities and exiles, women and gender
studies, literary and material culture, religious identity
construction, and, within Catholic studies, the role of laity as
well as clergy, and of female as well as male religious. In all,
these essays significantly advance the movement of early modern
British and Irish Catholicism from the historiographical margins to
an evolving, but ultimately more capacious and accurate, historical
mainstream.
What do the novelists Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte M. Yonge, Rose
Macaulay, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D.
James all have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to
write fiction through their relationship with the Church of
England. This field-defining collection of essays explores
Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their
Anglicanism. These essays, by a set of distinguished contributors,
cover a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits
through social comedy, children's books and supernatural fiction.
Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century,
they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past
two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of
England and wider society.
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