Henry Piers's Continental Travels, 1595-8

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-49677-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Reihe: Camden Fifth Series

The text, published here for the first time, is a significant addition to Elizabethan travel writing and religious autobiography. It describes a journey in 1595 to Rome through the Low Countries, Germany, and Italy. The author describes life in Rome (he was based in the English College, 1595–97), including an encounter with the Inquisition, and an account of the ghetto; his work is unusual among contemporary memoirs because it includes a narration of his subsequent sojourn in Spain in 1598. The book affords a rare lay perspective on conversion to Catholicism and its value is heightened by the author's origins in Ireland and connections in England, thus illuminating a recusant community which straddled both realms. As an eye-witness, the author offers fresh and individual insights on the Elizabethan Catholic diaspora in Rome and Spain during the turbulent decade of the 1590s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maccuarta Sj, Brian

Mac Cuarta SJ, Brian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; 'A discourse of HP his travelles written by him selfe'; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mac Cuarta SJ, Brian
Brian Mac Cuarta SJ has served as director, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Rome, since 2010. An Irish Jesuit, he previously spent ten years in Northern Ireland. He has taught at Queen's University Belfast and was a visiting professor at St Joseph's University, Philadelphia. He has published on the Catholic community, and on recent settlers, in early modern Ireland, including Catholic Revival in the North of Ireland (2007), and, as editor, Ulster 1641: Aspects of the Rising (1993), and Reshaping Ireland 1550–1700: Colonization and its Consequences (2011).