Author: Robert Southwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107668336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Robert Southwell's appeal to Queen Elizabeth I against her proclamation of October 1591 against the Roman Catholics

Author: Saint Robert Southwell
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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Saint Robert Southwell
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Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Saint Robert Southwell
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Robert Southwell
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Professor Victor Houliston
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409479803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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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 Historici Societatis Iesu'.

Author: Saint Robert Southwell
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Raphael Sóne
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The Corisco Conspiracy is the story of the Gunpowder Plot (the “conspiracy” of the title) as related, in crystal-clear prose, by William Shakespeare. It has long been suspected that the Shakespeares of Stratford-upon-Avon were crypto-Catholics. In this tell-all memoir, William, the first son of John and Mary Shakespeare, not only authenticates that suspicion, but also reveals significant events that happened in the Catholic underground of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The most noteworthy of those events is the first meeting of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot. It took place in Corisco, an island in present-day Equatorial Guinea which figures prominently in Shakespeare’s narrative. That was in November 1585 – twenty years before the plotters’ historic gunfight with security officers in Staffordshire. Corisco was not Shakespeare’s only link to Africa. Some of his fellow “Jesuit messengers” were Afro-Europeans. He himself wrote only one of the plays for which he is famous. The rest were supplied to his acting troupe by a different spy: a Portuguese-African princess, who was instructed to write in them encoded messages for Roman Catholic theatre-goers. The Bard married twice. His second wife, the hitherto unidentified Dark Lady of the Sonnets, was a Muslim from the Kingdom of Malabo. So, he embraced Mohammedanism. His confidants, a London couple of Malian descent, were also Islamic members of the Church of Rome. Many more Catholic rebels were implicated in the Gunpowder Plot than have thus far been listed in history books. Shakespeare does justice to them all in his account.

Author: David Loades
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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