The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond

Richard Finn, OP, joined the Dominicans in 1985. He served as Regent of Studies for the English Province from 2008 to 2012, and as Novice Master from 2012 to 2016. Author of Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2009), he is also the Order's Provincial Archivist in Blackfriars, Oxford.

• 1. The Making of an English Multi-National: 1221–1348; 2. From the Black Death to the Tudor Suppressions: 1348–1559; 3. An Unorganised Mission: 1559–1655; 4. A European Foundation: 1655–1827; 5. Apostolic Missioners: 1655–1850; 6. The Re-makings of an Observant Province: 1850–1913; 7. 'Jarrett's Jam': The Re-Shaping of the Province: 1914–1963; 8. From 'Acute Agony' to 'Rebirth', 1964–2021.

'While the Dominicans in medieval England have received various degrees of attention over the past decades, this book does a particular service in attending to the less remembered history of the Order from the Reformation onwards. Notably, it also covers the activities of the Province beyond the geographical boundaries of England proper, which includes not only Scotland, Ireland and Wales but also its “homeless” period in the Netherlands and its emergence within various British colonial territories. The scholarship is of a consistently high quality and the research is impressively comprehensive. There is also a welcome determination to bypass flowery narratives of the Order's past in favour of more complicated and occasionally less-harmonious accounts.' Steven Watts, Crandall University