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Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey - Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey - Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two
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At a time when England was an officially Protestant country to
translate Catholic works, thereby helping to propagate the faith,
was a brave act and to actually identify oneself in print, as did
Cary, as 'a Catholique, and a woman' was a risky assertion of
political opposition. One of Cary's daughters asserts that Cary's
translation of Cardinal Du Perron's Reply was largely motivated by
a desire to convert scholars at Oxford and Cambridge. With her
translation in 1630 she sought to reactivate a polemical war which
had peaked in 1616 and she intervened in political debate that was
far from resolved, and that would issue in revolution, regicide and
restoration in the years to come. Although few copies escaped the
burning ordered by Archbishop Abbot, at least ten survive. The copy
reproduced here is from Cambridge University. Alexia Grey (baptised
Margaret) joined the monastery of the Immaculate Conception in
Ghent in 1629 at the age of twenty two or three. Hers was not the
first translation of Benedict's Rule but by that time a
'reformation' and more than a century had rendered earlier
translations unavailable. Her work was an important contribution to
sustaining conventual life for Englishwomen abroad. Grey's
translation is sometimes bound, as in this volume, with Statutes
compyled for the better observation of the holy rule of S.
Benedict. The fine copy reproduced here is from the Downside Abbey
in Bath.
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