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Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England - Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580-1610 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England - Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580-1610 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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During his lifetime, the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610)
was arguably the leading figure fighting for the re-establishment
of Catholicism in England. Whilst his colleague Edmund Campion may
now be better known it was Persons's tireless efforts that kept the
Jesuit mission alive during the difficult days of Elizabeth's
reign. In this new study, Person's life and phenomenal literary
output are analysed and put into the broader context of recent
Catholic scholarship. The book bridges the gap between historical
studies, on the one hand, and literary studies on the other, by
concentrating on Persons's contribution as a writer to the
polemical culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries. As well as discussing his wider achievements as leader
of the English Jesuits - founding three seminaries for English
priests, corresponding regularly with Catholic activists in
England, writing over thirty books, holding the post of rector of
the English College in Rome, and being a trusted consultant to the
papacy on English affairs - this study looks in detail at what is
arguably his greatest legacy, The First Booke of the Christian
Exercise (more commonly known as the Book of Resolution). That
book, first published in 1582, was to prove the cornerstone of
Persons's missionary effort, and a popular work of Catholic
devotion, running to several editions over the coming years.
Although Persons was ultimately unsuccessful in his ambition to
return England to the Catholic fold, the story of his life and
works reveals much about the ecclesiastical struggle that gripped
early modern Europe. By providing a thorough and up-to-date
reassessment of Persons this study not only makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of the polemical context of
post-Reformation Catholicism, but also of the Jesuit notion of the
'apostolate of writing'. This book is published in conjunction with
the Jesuit Historical Institute series 'Bibliotheca Instituti
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