Narratives of Tradition and Truth

(Re)Writing the Catholic Past: Essays in Memory of Michael Hodgetts
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-902832-38-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Catholic Record Society: Monograph Series

Essays on a wide range of issues in the history of Catholicism in Britain since the Reformation, by many noted names in the field, in memory of Michael Hodgetts.

Michael Hodgetts, KSG, was an active and valued member of the Catholic Record Society for several decades. He is most widely known for Secret Hiding Places (1989; 2024) which combined the romance and the horrors of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics in England and Wales with the technical intricacies of architectural and local history, communicating their fascination to a wide readership that included a new generation of young researchers.

This volume brings together contributions in Michael's memory from many of his fellow experts on British Catholic history, ranging in time and space from the Marian bishops and the exile wanderings of the English Jesuit Robert Persons, through questions of local, national and international historiography, biography and hagiography in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, to Cardinal Manning's participation in the First Vatican Council, the oversight of Catholic military chaplains in the First and Second World War, and the mid-twentieth-century artistry and mysticism of Caryll Houselander.

It also includes Michael's uncompleted essay reconstructing the missionary journey of Robert Persons through the Welsh Marches in 1580, painstakingly mapping the clandestine Catholicism of the English Midlands after a decade of persecution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheils, William

Thomas, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöses Leben und religiöse Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Michael Hodgetts (1936-2022), by Alan McClelland
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and style conventions

Introduction, by William Sheils and Hannah Thomas

Section 1: Sanctity and Biography
Chapter 1. The Marian Bishops and Martyrdom? by William Sheils
Chapter 2. Fr Edward Rishton: 'A prominent divine of the Elizabethan period', by Martin J. Broadley
Chapter 3. Roman Catholic principles: polemic and the writing of history in eighteenth-century England, by Judith Champ
Chapter 4. The Enduring Butler: Saints and their Biographers, by Peter Doyle

Section 2: Missions and Nationhood
Chapter 5. Writing the History of Welsh Catholicism? by Hannah Thomas
Chapter 6. Catholicism and Recusancy in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Shropshire, by Peter Phillips
Chapter 7. Controlling the Damage: Robert Persons as Claudio Aquaviva's agent in Spain in the 1590s, by Thomas M. McCoog SJ
Chapter 8. Robert Persons on the move in Spain, 1589-1596, by Victor Houliston

Section 3: The Church in the Modern World
Chapter 9. Searching for the Emigrant Clergy of the French Revolution, by Dominic Bellenger
Chapter 10. An Ultramontane reading of Vatican I: Cardinal Manning's defence of Pastor Aeternus, by Jeffrey von Arx SJ
Chapter 11. 'The position of the Episcopus Castrensis is rather a delicate one': Establishing the Bishopric of the Forces, 1917-1946, by James Hagerty
Chapter 12. Enlightenment on the Underground: Caryll Houselander's Christological Mysticism and Pre-Conciliar English Catholicism, by Alana Harris

Appendix: Robert Persons in the Welsh Marches, 1580, by Michael Hodgetts
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas, Hannah
Hannah Thomas is Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent, York, where she oversees the archives, historic library and collections, and curates exhibitions within the UK's oldest living convent. Her research focuses on early modern Catholic history-particularly Jesuit book culture and post-Reformation burial practices-and she has published widely in these areas.

Sheils, William
William Sheils is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, specialising in the religious and social history of early modern Britain. His research focuses particularly on the English Reformation and post-Reformation society, and he has had a long academic career at York, including work as an archivist, lecturer, and Head of Department.