English Catholic exiles in late sixteenth-century Paris
Religious exile was both a familiar and a deeply discomforting phenomenon in Reformation Europe. In the turbulent context of the later sixteenth century, a group of English Catholic exiles in Paris became a source of serious concern to the Protestant government at home and a destabilising presence i...
| Résumé: | Religious exile was both a familiar and a deeply discomforting phenomenon in Reformation Europe. In the turbulent context of the later sixteenth century, a group of English Catholic exiles in Paris became a source of serious concern to the Protestant government at home and a destabilising presence in their host environment; their residence in Paris coincided with and contributed to a crisis in authority for the French Crown, and the buildup to the Spanish enterprise of England.<BR> This book uses a range of evidence from both sides of the Channel to investigate the polemical and practical impact of religious exile. It reconstructs the experience and priorities of the English Catholic laity and clergy in Paris, moving beyond contemporary stereotypes of the exiles, and the traditional historiographical view of English Catholicism as isolated and introverted. It emphasises the importance of placing English Catholic experience into a broader European context, shedding light on the significant place of France in their activity, thus offering a new angle entirely on the relationship between England and the continent in the early modern period.<BR><BR> Katy Gibbons is Senior Lecturerin History at the University of Portsmouth. Introduction -- The home and host contexts for Elizabethan exiles -- Between civility and piety: exile niches in an urban environment -- Exile in action: communicating and propagating the cause of radical Catholicism -- Making sense of exile: alternative and competing representations -- Returning or remaining? Divisions and longer-term developments in English Catholicism -- Conclusion |
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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017) |
| ISBN: | 1846159679 |