The Elizabethan Catholic underground : clandestine printing and scribal subversion in the English counter-reformation / edited by Earle Havens, Mark Rankin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Havens, Earle, 1971- editor.

Rankin, Mark, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 140.

Handpress world ; volume 115

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 140

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic literature--Publishing--Europe--History--16th century.

Catholic literature.

Counter-Reformation--England.

Counter-Reformation.

Underground press publications--Europe--History--16th century.

Underground press publications.

Catholic literature--History and criticism.

Catholics--England--History--16th century.

Catholics.

English--Europe--History--16th century.

English.

Catholic Church--England--History--16th century.

Catholic Church.

Great Britain--Religion--16th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2025]

Summary:

This is the first book-length study dedicated entirely to the clandestine print and scribal culture of members of the international Elizabethan Catholic underground, c. 1558-1603. Close studies offer fresh material textual evidence of a truly cosmopolitan, polyglot, and trans-European community of domestic and exiled English Catholics, moving well beyond the British Isles to the Dutch Low Countries, France, Poland, Spain, and Italy. Explorations of book smuggling networks, clandestine printers, secret Catholic libraries, illicit scribal publications, international patronage and finance, and press censorship combine in this volume to shed new light on an otherwise shadowy, often subversive, but still relatively understudied early modern book culture.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Elizabethan Catholic Print Culture

Chapter 1 The Business of Catholic Controversial Literature Alan Cope, Christopher Plantin, and the Printing and Distribution of Nicholas Harpsfield's Dialogi sex

Chapter 2 An Apostolate of the Book: English Catholic Print Culture before the Jesuit Mission, 1559-80

Chapter 3 Cross-Cultural Exchange and Accommodation: the Reception of Edmund Campion's Rationes Decem in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Chapter 4 Missionary Printing, Robert Persons's Letters, and the Logistics of Rapid Response

Chapter 5 Wrapped in Deceit: Book Smuggling from Rouen in 1584

Part 2 The Hybridity of Script and Print

Chapter 6 Archives of Prayer: Medieval Books and Catholic Memory in Elizabethan England

Chapter 7 The Early Manuscript and Scribal Transmission of Nicholas Sander's Catholic History of the Reformation

Chapter 8 The Professor, the Queen and the Nag's Head: Thomas Neal Reimagines the Elizabethan Settlement

Chapter 9 Southwell's Short Rule and Early Modern Catholic Written Culture

Chapter 10 Catholic Verse in Manuscript and Print as Oppositional Politics

Chapter 11 Text, Paratext, Context: the Scribal and Print Publications of Tichborne's Lament

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004426412

OCLC:

1513264698

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004426412 DOI