About the Book
Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Rather than perpetuate the usual stereotypes and misinformation, it provides a fresh look at Catholic writing long suppressed, marginalized, and ignored. The anthology gives back voices to those silenced by prejudice, exile,
persecution, or martyrdom while attention to actual texts challenges conventional beliefs about the period.
The anthology is divided into eight sections entitled Controversies, Lives and Deaths,
Poetry, Instructions and Devotions, Drama, Histories, Fiction, and Documents, and includes sixteen black and white illustrations from a variety of Early Modern sources. Amongst the selections are texts which illuminate the role of women in recusant community and in the Church; the rich traditions of prayer and mysticism; the theology and politics of martyrdom; the emergence of the Catholic Baroque in literature and art; and the polemical battles fought within the Church and against its enemies.
Early Modern Catholicism also provides a context that redefines the established canons of Early Modern England, including such figures as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, John Milton, William Shakespeare,
and Ben Jonson.
Table of Contents:
Controversies Desiderius Erasmus: On the New Testament, 1516 Desiderius Erasmus: On Free Will, 1524 Thomas More: A Dialogue Concerning Heresies, 1530 Edmund Plowden: A Treatise on Mary, Queen of Scots, 1566 Nicholas Sander: A Treatise of the Images of Christ and of his Saints, 1567 Edmund Campion: A Letter to the Privy Council, 1580 Edmund Campion: The Tower Debates, 1581 Alban Langdale: Reasons why Catholics may go to Church, 1580 William Allen: A True, Sincere, and Modest Defence of English Catholics, 1588 William Allen: A Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, 1588 Henry Garnet: Of Indulgences or Pardons, 1592-6 Henry Garnet: A Treatise of Equivocation, c. 1598 Juan de Mariana: On the King and the Education of the King, 1599 Robert Bellarmine: On the Authority of the Pope against William Basday, 1610 Jane Owen: An Antidote against Purgatory, 1634 Lives and Deaths Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Teresa of Ávila (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 Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury: The Life of Saint Winifred, 1130 Thomas à Kempis: The Imitation of Christ, 1420-7 Ignatius Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises, 1521-2 John Fisher, Thomas More, Robert Southwell: Consolations, 1534, 1588 Luis de Granada, John Bucke: Meditations, 1582, 1589 Roger Martin: Memoirs of Long Melford, ca. 1590 William Byrd: Gradualia, 1605 Francis de Sales: An Introduction to a Devout Life, 1613 Henry Hawkins: Partheneia Sacra, 1633 Augustine Baker: Sancta Sophia, 1657 Drama John Heywood: The Pardoner and the Friar, c. 1530 Jane Lumley: Iphigeneia in Aulis, c. 1555 Jacob Bidermann: Cenodoxus, 1602 William Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1599-1601 William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, 1603-04 William Shakespeare: Pericles, 1606-08 William Shakespeare: Henry VIII, 1613 Ben Jonson: Sejanus, 1603-04 Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, 1610 Philip Massinger: The Renegado, 1624 James Shirley: St Patrick for Ireland, 1639-40 Histories Venerable Bede: The History of the Church of England, tr. Thomas Stapleton, 1565 Nicholas Sander: Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism, 1585 Bartolomé de Las Casas: The Spanish Colony, 1583 Robert Persons: A Treatise of Three Conversions of England, 1603-04 Richard Verstegan: A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, 1605 Philip O'Sullivan-Beare: The History of Catholic Ireland, 1621 Elizabeth Cary: The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, 1627 Fiction Desiderius Erasmus: Colloquies, 1518 Anthony Copley: Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 1595 Thomas Lodge: Wit's Misery, 1596 Thomas Lodge: Prosopopeia, 1596 Robert Chambers: Palestina, 1600 Elizabeth Southwell: The Sickness and Death of Queen Elizabeth, 1607 John Barclay: 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
About the Author :
Robert S. Miola has been Lecturer in Classics at Loyola College since 1990. He is currently the Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English.
Review :
A highly useful set of primary historical sources... a fresh look at the history of the period... this book belongs in every college and university library where students of history and students of religion conduct primary research. William V. Hudon, The Review of English Studies The insightful introduction, informative, non-tendentious footnotes, and an extensive bibliography demonstrate the editor's mastery of secondary literary and historical sources. Thomas M McCoog This is a rich and timely resource. Alison Shell, Durham Univeristy a collection that opens a window on the period, allowing you to breathe its air and hear its voices in a way that is quite revelatory, and it undermines much that has long been taken for granted about the Reformation. The Tablet
