Catholics writing the nation in early modern Britain and Ireland / Christopher Highley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Highley, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic literature.

Nationalism--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Nationalism.

Great Britain--Church history--16th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Church history--17th century.

Ireland--Church history--16th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Church history--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modern scholars, fixated on the 'winners' in England's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious struggles, have too readily assumed the inevitability of Protestantism's historical triumph and have uncritically accepted the reformers' own rhetorical construction of themselves as embodiments of an authentic Englishness. Christopher Highley interrogates this narrative by examining how Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early seventeenth century contested and shapeddiscourses of national identity, patriotism, and Englishness. Accused by their opponents of espousing an alien religion

Contents:

Introduction : English Catholics and discourses of the nation

First wave : exile and Catholic identity, 1558

1570

Turks, northerners, and the barbarous heretic

The lost British lamb : religion and national identity among English, Welsh, and Scottish Catholics

English Catholics and Ireland

Anglo-Spanish relations and the hispaniolized English Catholic.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-225) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612268298

0-19-155988-1

1-282-26829-5

OCLC:

606404495