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Many scholars have been calling for a new edition of Sir John
Harington's Epigrams. Gerard Kilroy, using the three manuscripts
arranged and revised by the author, offers the first complete text
in print of Harington's four hundred Epigrams, uncovers Harington's
elaborate design of forty theological decades, and restores the
emblems and political elegies that Harington uses to frame his
complete collection and define its serious purpose.
The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between
the world of printed untruth and private, handwritten, truth in
early modern England. Gerard Kilroy traces the circulation of
manuscripts connected with Campion to reveal a fascinating network
that not only stretched from the Court to Warwickshire and East
Anglia but also crossed the confessional boundaries. Kilroy shows
that in this intricate web Sir John Harington was a key figure,
using his disguise as a wit to conceal a lifelong dedication to
Campion's memory. Sir Thomas Tresham is shown as expressing his
devotion to Campion both in his coded buildings and in a previously
unpublished manuscript, Bodleian MS Eng. th. b. 1-2, whose
theological and cultural riches are here fully explored. This book
provides startling new views about Campion's literary, historical
and cultural impact in early modern England. The great strength of
this study is its exploitation of archival manuscript sources,
offering the first printed text and translation of Campion's
Virgilian epic, a fully collated text of 'Why doe I use my paper,
ynke and pen', and Harington's four decades of theological
epigrams, printed for the first time in the order he so carefully
designed. Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription lays the
foundations of the first full literary assessment of Campion the
scholar, the impact he had on the literature of early modern
England, and the long legacy in manuscript writing.
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.
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.
The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between
the world of printed untruth and private, handwritten, truth in
early modern England. Gerard Kilroy traces the circulation of
manuscripts connected with Campion to reveal a fascinating network
that not only stretched from the Court to Warwickshire and East
Anglia but also crossed the confessional boundaries. Kilroy shows
that in this intricate web Sir John Harington was a key figure,
using his disguise as a wit to conceal a lifelong dedication to
Campion's memory. Sir Thomas Tresham is shown as expressing his
devotion to Campion both in his coded buildings and in a previously
unpublished manuscript, Bodleian MS Eng. th. b. 1-2, whose
theological and cultural riches are here fully explored. This book
provides startling new views about Campion's literary, historical
and cultural impact in early modern England. The great strength of
this study is its exploitation of archival manuscript sources,
offering the first printed text and translation of Campion's
Virgilian epic, a fully collated text of 'Why doe I use my paper,
ynke and pen', and Harington's four decades of theological
epigrams, printed for the first time in the order he so carefully
designed. Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription lays the
foundations of the first full literary assessment of Campion the
scholar, the impact he had on the literature of early modern
England, and the long legacy in manuscript writing.
Many scholars have been calling for a new edition of Sir John
Harington's Epigrams. Gerard Kilroy, using the three manuscripts
arranged and revised by the author, offers the first complete text
in print of Harington's four hundred Epigrams, uncovers Harington's
elaborate design of forty theological decades, and restores the
emblems and political elegies that Harington uses to frame his
complete collection and define its serious purpose.
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