Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the role of the Society of Jesus in the development of British and Irish Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation. The stable communities of religious in mainland Europe also acted as important centres of religious and secular activity. This volume explores the ways in which British and Irish conventuals and monastics, both men and women, engaged with the seismic religious and philosophical developments of the early modern period, such as the Catholic Reformation and the Enlightenment in mainland Europe, as well as important political developments at 'home', exploring the connections between centres and peripheries. Building on recent movements within the field to 'decentralise' the Catholic Reformation and recognize the international nature of Catholicism, the volume aims to change the perception that the activities of British and Irish religious were 'peripheral', bringing the islands' experience in line with work on their European confreres and the broader global network of the religious orders.

About the Author
CORMAC BEGADON is Assistant Professor (Research): Sepulchrine Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University. JAMES E. KELLY is Sweeting Associate Professor (Research) in the History of Catholicism at Durham University CORMAC BEGADON is Assistant Professor (Research): Sepulchrine Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University. JAMES E. KELLY is Sweeting Associate Professor (Research) in the History of Catholicism at Durham University

Reviews
Readers will gain greater understanding of the valuable and varied contributions that conventuals and monastics made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they will come away from the book with a greater appreciation for the "conventual and monastic movement as a collective whole. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *



Book Information
ISBN 9781914967009
Author Cormac Begadon
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint Boydell & Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g