Pre-Suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland: Brill's Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39491-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 209 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies

The British Isles and Ireland tested the self-proclaimed adaptability and flexibility of the new Society of Jesus. A mission to Ireland highlighted the complexities and ended in failure in the early 1580s, not to be revived until 1598. The fabled Jesuit mission to England in 1580 conceived in wistful optimism was baptized with blood with the execution of Edmund Campion in 1581 and the consequent political manoeuveres of Robert Persons. The Scottish mission began in December 1581. The three missions remained distinct in the pre-suppression period despite an occasional proposal for integration. The English mission was the largest, the bloodiest, the most controversial, and the only one to progress to full provincial status. The government tried to suppress it; the Benedictines tried to complement it; the vicars-apostolic tried to control it; and foreign Jesuits tried to recognize it. Nonetheless, the English province forged a corporate identity that even withstood the suppression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCoog S. J., Thomas M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.

Abstract

Keywords

1 Initial Contact

2 Jesuit Nuncios

3 Vocations to the Society

4 Permanent Missions in the Sixteenth Century

5 The Early Stuarts and Interregnum

6 Restoration and the Later Stuarts

7 The Eighteenth Century

8 Suppression

9 Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., PhD (1984), sometime director of publications at the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (Rome) and archivist of the British Jesuit province (London), is curator of the Avery, Cardinal Dulles Archives at Fordham University (New York). His most recent monograph is The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1598–1606. “Lest our lamp be entirely extinguished” (Brill, 2017).