Luke Wadding, the Irish Franciscans, and Global Catholicism

Matteo Binasco is an adjunct professor at the Università per gli Stranieri of Siena.

• 1. Introduction: Father Luke Wadding — A Multifaced Irishman in a Global World Part I: Wadding and the Iberian Peninsula 2. Irish Franciscans and the Santiago Province of Spain 3. "Learned, Attached and Reliable": Luke Wadding, Agent of the Spanish Monarchy Part II: Wadding and the Roman Context 4. Discovering Migration in the Seventeenth Century: Propaganda Fide, the Holy Office and Foreigners 5. Not Only a "Hibernese" in the Urbs: Luke Wadding and His Entourage in Seventeenth-Century Rome Part III: The Cultural World of Wadding 6. The Development of Libraries in the Seventeenth Century: Luke Wadding’s Library 7. Luke Wadding: A Life in and for Books 8. Luke Wadding and Scholars for the Arts in Seventeenth-Century Rome 9. The Wadding Circle and the History of Political Thought Part IV: Wadding and Ireland 10. Wadding and the Irish Tombs in St. Pietro in Montorio 11. The Vita Waddingi and the Memory of Confederate and Cromwellian Ireland 12. Conclusion

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