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Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities
of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important
centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the
Protestant Reformation. This collection aims to explore new
perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and
monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles
and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building
on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical
imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the
role of the Society of Jesus in the development of British and
Irish Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation. The stable
communities of religious in mainland Europe also acted as important
centres of religious and secular activity. This volume explores the
ways in which British and Irish conventuals and monastics, both men
and women, engaged with the seismic religious and philosophical
developments of the early modern period, such as the Catholic
Reformation and the Enlightenment in mainland Europe, as well as
important political developments at 'home', exploring the
connections between centres and peripheries. Building on recent
movements within the field to 'decentralise' the Catholic
Reformation and recognize the international nature of Catholicism,
the volume aims to change the perception that the activities of
British and Irish religious were 'peripheral', bringing the
islands' experience in line with work on their European confreres
and the broader global network of the religious orders.
Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the
span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the
lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a
textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief,
practice and organization.
Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the
span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the
lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a
textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief,
practice and organization.
The evolution of the Counter-Reformation church in Ireland is central to Irish history. The papal nuncio GianBattista Rinuccini was at the heart of the turbulent events of the 1640s, a decade which formed a prologue to the Cromwellian conquest. This book offers a scholarly reappraisal of the man and his role in shaping the religion and history of Ireland.
The theme of 'community' has proved a focus of considerable
interest in recent historiography, but has been neglected in its
application to Ireland. Here the question of 'community' is pursued
in terms of the political, cultural, social and religious condition
of Ireland, and in its European context. Contents -- Tadhg
hAnnrachin (UCD) on the ideal of representative communities; Colm
Lennon (NUIM) on fraternity and community in early modern Ireland;
John McCafferty (UCD) on early modern interpretations of the Island
of Saints and Scholars; Tim Harris (Brown U) on politics, religion
and community in later Stuart Ireland; Patrick Little (History of
Parliament, London) on The New English in Europe 1625-1660; Clodagh
Tait (U Essex) on Catholic bequests and recusancy in Ireland; Aoife
Duignan (UCD) on Shifting allegiances: the Protestant community in
Connacht, 1643-5; Darren McGettigan on the political community of
the lordship of Tir Chonaill and reaction to the Nine Years War;
Robert Arms
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