English Catholic exiles in late sixteenth-century Paris / Katy Gibbons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbons, Katy.

Series:

Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series

Studies in history new series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles.

History.

English.

Catholics.

England--Church history--16th century.

England.

Church history.

Catholics--France--Paris--History--16th century.

English--France--Paris--History--16th century.

Exiles--France--Paris--History--16th century.

France--Church history--16th century.

France.

Reformation--Europe.

Reformation.

Europe.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, NY : Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 2011.

Summary:

Religious exile was both a familiar and a deeply discomforting phenomenon in Reformation Europe. In the turbulent context of the later sixteenth century, a group of English Catholic exiles in Paris became a source of serious concern to the Protestant government at home and a destabilising presence in their host environment; their residence in Paris coincided with and contributed to a crisis in authority for the French crown, and tire buildup to the Spanish enterprise of England.

This book uses a range of evidence from both sides of the Channel to investigate the polemical and practical impact of religious exile. It reconstructs the experience and priorities of the English Catholic laity and clergy in Paris, moving beyond contemporary stereotypes of the exiles, and the traditional historiographical view of English Catholicism as isolated and introverted. It emphasises the importance of placing English Catholic experience into a broader European context, shedding light on the significant place of France in their activity, thus offering an entirely new angle on the relationship between England and the continent in the early modern period. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The home and host contexts for Elizabethan exiles

Between civility and piety: exile niches in an urban environment

Exile in action: communicating and propagating the cause of radical Catholicism

Making sense of exile: alternative and competing representations

Returning or remaining? Divisions and longer-term developments in English Catholicism

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.

ISBN:

9780861933136

0861933133

OCLC:

699759030