Early Modern English Catholicism

James E. Kelly, Ph.D. (2009), King’s College London, is St Cuthbert’s Society Research Fellow in Early Modern British and Irish Catholicism at Durham University, as well as Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded research project, ‘Monks in Motion’.Susan Royal, Ph.D. (2014), Durham University, is Lecturer in Reformation Studies at Durham University, and has published on Protestant polemic and John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments.

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJames E. Kelly and Susan RoyalPart I: Identity1. Situating Early Modern English CatholicismBrad S. Gregory2. Creating an English Catholic Identity: Relics, Martyrs and English Women Religious in Counter-Reformation EuropeJames E. Kelly3. A British Catholic Community? Ethnicity, Identity and Recusant Politics, 1660–1750Gabriel Glickman4. ‘Libera nos Domine?’ The Vicars Apostolic and the Suppressed/Restored English Province of the Society of JesusThomas M. McCoog, SJPart II: Memory5. ‘Attend to Me’: Julian of Norwich, Margaret Gascoigne and Textual Circulation among the Cambrai BenedictinesJaime Goodrich6. English Catholics and English Heretics: The Lollards and Anti-Heresy Writing in Early Modern EnglandSusan Royal7. Joseph Reeve, SJ, the Park at Ugbrooke and the Cliffords of ChudleighMatthew J. MartinPart III: Counter-Reformation8. Underground Networks, Prisons and the Circulation of Counter-Reformation Books in Elizabethan EnglandEarle Havens and Elizabeth Patton9. The Gospel, Liturgy and Controversy in the 1590s: Thomas Stapleton’s PromptuariaWilliam J. Sheils10. Praying the Counter-ReformationEamon Duffy11. John Austin’s Devotions: Voicing Lyric, Voicing PrayerSusannah B. MontaAfterwordJohn BossyIndex

“A rewarding collection of essays.”Peter Marshall, University of Warwick. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 188-190.“the collection reflects the growing prominence of early modern Catholic history in the British and European historiography and would be relevant to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Catholicism.” Eilish Gregory, University College London. In: The English Historical Review, Vol. 134, No. 566 (February 2019), pp. 206-208.