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Edmund Campion - A Scholarly Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Edmund Campion - A Scholarly Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to
Evelyn Waugh's call, in 1935, for a 'scholarly biography' to
replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early
accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit priest,
this new biography presents a more balanced assessment, placing
equal weight on Campion's London upbringing among printers and
preachers, and on his growing stature as an orator in an Oxford
riven with religious divisions. Ireland, chosen by Campion as a
haven from religious conflict, is shown, paradoxically, to have
determined his life and his death. Gerard Kilroy here draws on
newly discovered manuscript sources to reveal Campion as a
charismatic and affectionate scholar who was finding fulfilment as
priest and teacher in Prague when he was summoned to lead the first
Jesuit mission to England. The book argues that the delays in his
long journey suggest reluctant acceptance, even before he was told
that Dr Nicholas Sander had brought 'holy war' to Ireland, so that
Campion landed in an England that was preparing for papal invasion.
The book offers fresh insights into the dramatic search for
Campion, the populist nature of the disputations in the Tower, and
the legal issues raised by his torture. It was the monarchical
republic itself that, in pursuit of the Anjou marriage, made him
the beloved 'champion' of the English Catholic community. Edmund
Campion: A Scholarly Life presents the most detailed and
comprehensive picture to date of an historical figure whose loyalty
and courage, in the trial and on the scaffold, swiftly became
legendary across Europe.
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