Early Modern Catholicism

Robert S. Miola has been Lecturer in Classics at Loyola College since 1990. He is currently the Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English.

• CONTROVERSIES ; On the New Testament, 1516 ; On Free Will, 1524 ; A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, 1530 ; A Treatise on Mary, Queen of Scots, 1566 ; A Treatise of the Images of Christ and of his Saints, 1567 ; A Letter to the Privy Council, 1580 ; The Tower Debates, 1581 ; Reasons why Catholics may go to Church, 1580 ; A True, Sincere, and Modest Defence of English Catholics, 1588 ; A Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, 1588 ; Of Indulgences or Pardons, 1592-6 ; A Treatise of Equivocation, c. 1598 ; On the King and the Education of the King, 1599 ; On the Authority of the Pope against William Basday, 1610 ; An Antidote against Purgatory, 1634 ; LIVES AND DEATHS ; Augustine of Hippo (354-430) ; Teresa of Avila (1515-82) ; Thomas More (1477-1535) ; Edmund Campion (1540-81) ; Margaret Clitherow (1556?-86) ; William Weston (1550-1615) ; Alexander Rawlins (1555?-95) and Henry Walpole (1558-95) ; Toby Matthew (1577-1655) ; Mary Ward (1585-1645) ; POETRY ; A Lament and Some Ballads ; Chidiock Tichborne (1558?-86) ; Francis Tregian (1548-1608) ; Thomas Pounde (1538-1613) ; Henry Constable (1562-1613) ; Robert Southwell (1561-95) ; Anthony Copley (1567-1609?) ; Richard Verstegan (1548-1636) ; William Alabaster (1567-1640) ; Toby Matthew (1577-1665) ; John Donne (1572-1631) ; Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ; John Beaumont (1584-1627) ; William Habington (1605-54) ; Gertrude More (1604-33) ; Richard Crashaw (1612-49) ; INSTRUCTIONS AND DEVOTIONS ; Prayers and Hymns, 11th-16th centuries ; The Life of Saint Winifred, 1130 ; The Imitation of Christ, 1420-7 ; The Spiritual Exercises, 1521-2 ; Consolations, 1534, 1588 ; Meditations, 1582, 1589 ; Memoirs of Long Melford, ca. 1590 ; Gradualia, 1605 ; An Introduction to a Devout Life, 1613 ; Partheneia Sacra, 1633 ; Sancta Sophia, 1657 ; DRAMA ; The Pardoner and the Friar, c. 1530 ; Iphigeneia in Aulis, c. 1555 ; Cenodoxus, 1602 ; Hamlet, 1599-1601 ; Measure for Measure, 1603-04 ; Pericles, 1606-08 ; Henry VIII, 1613 ; Sejanus, 1603-04 ; The Alchemist, 1610 ; The Renegado, 1624 ; St Patrick for Ireland, 1639-40 ; HISTORIES ; The History of the Church of England, tr. Thomas Stapleton, 1565 ; Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism, 1585 ; The Spanish Colony, 1583 ; A Treatise of Three Conversions of England, 1603-04 ; A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, 1605 ; The History of Catholic Ireland, 1621 ; The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, 1627 ; FICTION ; Colloquies, 1518 ; Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 1595 ; Wit's Misery, 1596 ; Prosopopeia, 1596 ; Palestina, 1600 ; The Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth, 1607 ; Argenis, 1629 ; DOCUMENTS (PAPAL BULLS) ; The Inquisition, 1231 ; The Colonization of the New World, 1493 ; The Publication of Books, 1515 ; The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, 1570

Robert S. Miola's compendious and highly accessible collection of the polemical, biographical, poetic, devotional and historical texts of early modern Catholicism will prove an invaluable resource for students, their instructors, and interested members of the general public.