Evan Haefeli, ed., Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism, Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. xiv + 344, £31.50, ISBN: 978-0-8139-4491-3

Abstract

can be used to shed light on Wadding’s Irish world in exile as Thomas O’Connor’s Irish voices from the Spanish Inquisition (Basingstoke, 2016) demonstrates. Luke Wadding is one of those figures from the seventeenth century whose career requires thorough re-evaluation. At the very least this book demonstrates the truth of that statement. Indeed, it does a great deal more. In different ways the essays cast light on Wadding’s experience in Ireland, Spain, and Rome and emphasise the centrality of his scholarly work that had political as well as religious implications. It will require a rather unique scholar to undertake the broader task but the harvest will be truly great.