Research Catalog

Title

Confessional mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe / Liesbeth Corens.

Author

Corens, Liesbeth

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xii, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

In the wake of England's break with Rome and gradual reformation, English Catholics took root outside of the country, in Catholic countries across Europe. Their arrival and the foundation of convents and colleges on the Continent as attracted scholarly attention. However, we need to understand their impact beyond that initial moment of change. Confessional Mobility, therefore, looks at the continued presence of English Catholics abroad and how the English Catholic community was shaped by these cross-Channel connections. Corens proposes a new interpretative model of 'confessional mobility'. She opens up the debate to include pilgrims, grand tour travellers, students, and mobile scholars alongside exiles. The diversity of mobility highlights that those abroad were never cut off or isolated on the Continent. Rather, through correspondence and constant travel, they created a community without borders. This cross-Channel community was not defined by its status as victims of persecution, but provided the lifeblood for English Catholics for generations. Confessional Mobility also incorporates minority Catholics more closely into the history of the Counter-Reformation. Long side-lined as exceptions to the rule of a hierarchical, triumphant, territorial Catholic Church, English Catholic have seldom been recognised as an instrumental part in the wider Counter-Reformation. Attention to movement and mission in the understanding of Catholics incorporates minority Catholics alongside extra-European missions and reinforces current moves to decentre Counter-Reformation scholarship.

Subject

• Catholic Church > Europe
• Catholic Church
• Counter-Reformation > England
• Counter-Reformation > Europe
• Counter-Reformation
• Katholik
• Migration
• Europe > Church history
• England
• Europe

Genre/Form

Church history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-229) and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-2762

ISBN

• 0198812434
• 9780198812432

OCLC

1039611034

Author

Corens, Liesbeth, author. Author

Title

Confessional mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe / Liesbeth Corens.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-229) and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Corens, Liesbeth. Confessional mobility and English Catholics in counter-reformation Europe. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 9780191850264 (OCoLC)1049598081

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2762