Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789

James E. Kelly, Ph.D. (2009), King’s College London, is Sweeting Research Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University. He has published widely on post-Reformation British and Irish Catholic communities at home and in exile.Hannah Thomas, Ph.D. (2014), Swansea University, is Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent, York, the oldest living convent in England. She has published widely on Welsh Catholicism and Jesuit book history.

• ntroductionHannah ThomasPart 1Rediscovering the English Mission1. “To wyn yow to heaven”: Edmund Campion’s Winning WordsGerard Kilroy2. Edmund Campion’s Prague Homilies: The Concionale ex concionibus a R. P. Edmundo CampianoClarinda Calma3. The Most Catholic King and the “Hispanized Camelion”: Philip II and Robert PersonsVictor HoulistonPart 2The Jesuits and English Culture4. Jesuit Drama Crossing the Channel: Jakob Gretser and William Shakespeare’s Pericles and Timon of AthensSonja Fielitz5. Relics and Cultures of Commemoration in the English Jesuit College of St. Omers in the Spanish NetherlandsJanet Graffius6. Scheming Jesuits and Sound Doctrine?: The Influence of the Jesuits on English Catholic Music at Home and Abroad, c.1580–1640Andrew CichyPart 3English Jesuit Influence in Mainland Europe7. “Extravagant” English Books at the Library of El Escorial and Jesuit AgencyAna Sáez-Hidalgo8. Spoils of War?: The Edict of Restitution and Benefactions to the English Province of the Society of JesusThomas M. McCoog, S.J.9. Invisible Threads of Divine Providence: The British Links in the Polemical Theology of Martinus Szent-Ivany (1633–1705)Svorad Zavarský10. Probabilism, Pluralism, and Papalism: Jesuit Allegiance Politics in the British Atlantic and Continental Europe, 1644–50Christopher P. GillettPart 4Pan-European Networks of Communication11. Providence and Historiography in Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia ecclesiastica del scisma del reyno de InglaterraSpencer J. Weinreich12. Spiritual Exercises and Spiritual Exercises: Ascetic Intellectual Exchange in the English Catholic Community, c.1600–1794Hannah Thomas13. “Established and putt in good order”: The Venerable English College, Rome, under Jesuit Administration, 1579‒1685Maurice Whitehead14. Jesuit News Networks and Catholic Identity: The Letters of John Thorpe to the English Carmelite Nuns at Lierre, 1769–89James E. Kelly

"a vibrant picture of the intellectual, artistic, and literary contributions of English Jesuits to the Society’s missions in early modern Europe, and enriches our under-standing of the Jesuits’ significance in cultivating ties between English Catholics and their European neighbours." - Aislinn Muller, Clare College, Cambridge, in: Britisch Catholic History 35.1, pp. 128–130"This new collection from Brill deserves to be standard reading by all historians of the Renaissance." - Bonnie Lander Johnson, University of Cambridge, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1433–1434"In addition to this volume’s obvious usefulness to scholars of early modern Christianity, English Catholicism and the Society of Jesus, it could also be useful in undergraduate classrooms and to interested non-specialists." - Shaun Blanchard, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, Louisiana, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 4 (2019), p. 885–887