tion and the liminal moments and spaces that facilitate such transition. Alexandra Walsham’s opening chapter explores the flexibility of the spiritual lifecycle through ‘second birth’ or religious conversion later in life. Physical and religious age, Walsham argues, were fluid in response not only to the individual convert, but also to the lifecycle of the religious denomination itself. For David Fletcher, the stage offers a space in which religious doctrine could be questioned and challenged whilst also emphasising the ubiquity of the lifecycle as an organising element of early modern life. Rebecca Whitely beautifully illustrates the power of images to shape the mind and therefore to encourage deep spiritual reflection whilst also exploring the womb as both liminal space and proof of God’s power and creativity. Birth and death dominate this collection as they dominated early modern life. This is particularly evident in Rosemary Kemp’s detailed reading of John Souch’s painting Sir Thomas Ashton at the Deathbed of his Wife which also forms the front cover of the book. The bed chamber in which the portrait is set is also the backdrop for many of the lifecycle events discussed throughout the book, bringing us back to the overlapping stages of the life-spiral —a space where birth and death meet. Contributors to this book lay claim to a variety of disciplines, and the source material used is therefore rich and extensive. Diaries, letters, autobiographies, conduct books, hymns, drama, line drawings, paintings and conduct books all contribute to a wide-ranging consideration of religion and everyday life amongst the turbulence of seventeenth century England. This book will, of course, be of significant interest to scholars of religion in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Yet, this collection’s approach of interweaving religion and domestic life —highlighting the flexibility of denominational and community boundaries, the precarious nature of both physical and spiritual lifecycles, and the overlapping of birth and death —means that it has a reach far beyond studies of religion. Scholars and students of everyday life, of birth, death and every lifecycle stage in between, and of identity and community will also find useful elements in this broad collection of scholarship.
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{"title":"Jaime Goodrich, Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600 –1800, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, pp. 240, $59.95, ISBN: 978-0-8173-2103-1.","authors":"Victoria Van Hyning","doi":"10.1017/bch.2022.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41340024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theresa Earenfight, Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England, University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, pp. xiv + 251, £26.75, ISBN: 9780271091648","authors":"Susan Wabuda","doi":"10.1017/bch.2022.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57027440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philip Perry (1720-74) was a Catholic priest and scholar. From a Staffordshire Catholic family, he was educated at the English College at Douai and St Gregory’s English College in Paris. He was ordained priest in 1751 and obtained his doctorate in theology in 1754. In 1767, Perry was appointed rector of the English College of St Alban, Valladolid, Spain, and although his duties there proved time-consuming, he none the less undertook historical research on a range of subjects. Inter alia, he prepared a life of Robert Grosseteste, the thirteenth-century bishop of Lincoln. After Perry’s death, this and other manuscripts were returned to Britain. This volume, edited by Jack P. Cunningham, is the first publication of the ‘Essay’ on Grosseteste. Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) was, of course, a quite remarkable man. One towering modern interpreter, Sir Richard Southern, summarized his career enthusiastically: ‘scientist, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, [he] combined a very humble origin with torrential energy, great ability, and a rarely paralleled breadth of intellectual interests’.1 Given such distinction, that Grosseteste fascinated Perry is unsurprising. But, in the two centuries following the Reformation, Grosseteste’s life excited some religious controversy. The reason for this is indicated by the Victorian stained-glass window in Lincoln Cathedral reproduced on the volume’s cover: it shows Grosseteste remonstrating with the Pope about abuses in the curia. That clash, and other ‘evidence’, allowed Protestants to claim the Bishop as a proto-Protestant; and Perry endeavoured to refute the identification. Perry entitled his study an ‘Essay on the life and manners of the venerable Robert Grossetete [sic], Bishop of Lincoln, from his own works and from contemporary Writers’. In preparation, he had read widely and painstakingly; the works cited by him are listed on pp. 231-4 of this edition. Perry organized the material into four books, each containing short chapters. He had no doubt as to Grosseteste’s greatness: the Bishop was variously ‘our heroe’, ‘[o]ur most meek Prelate’, ‘our judicious Prelate’, ‘our active Prelate’, ‘our penetrating Prelate’, ‘our generous Prelate’, ‘[o]ur intrepid Prelate’, and ‘our strenuous and patriot Prelate’. Therefore one object of the ‘Essay’, Perry stated in his Preface,
{"title":"Philip Perry, Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste, edited by Jack P. Cunningham, Woodbridge: Catholic Record Society: Record Series Volume 89, The Boydell Press, 2022, pp. l + 247, £50.00/$75.00, ISBN: 978-0-902832-34-3","authors":"C. Haydon","doi":"10.1017/bch.2022.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.32","url":null,"abstract":"Philip Perry (1720-74) was a Catholic priest and scholar. From a Staffordshire Catholic family, he was educated at the English College at Douai and St Gregory’s English College in Paris. He was ordained priest in 1751 and obtained his doctorate in theology in 1754. In 1767, Perry was appointed rector of the English College of St Alban, Valladolid, Spain, and although his duties there proved time-consuming, he none the less undertook historical research on a range of subjects. Inter alia, he prepared a life of Robert Grosseteste, the thirteenth-century bishop of Lincoln. After Perry’s death, this and other manuscripts were returned to Britain. This volume, edited by Jack P. Cunningham, is the first publication of the ‘Essay’ on Grosseteste. Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) was, of course, a quite remarkable man. One towering modern interpreter, Sir Richard Southern, summarized his career enthusiastically: ‘scientist, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, [he] combined a very humble origin with torrential energy, great ability, and a rarely paralleled breadth of intellectual interests’.1 Given such distinction, that Grosseteste fascinated Perry is unsurprising. But, in the two centuries following the Reformation, Grosseteste’s life excited some religious controversy. The reason for this is indicated by the Victorian stained-glass window in Lincoln Cathedral reproduced on the volume’s cover: it shows Grosseteste remonstrating with the Pope about abuses in the curia. That clash, and other ‘evidence’, allowed Protestants to claim the Bishop as a proto-Protestant; and Perry endeavoured to refute the identification. Perry entitled his study an ‘Essay on the life and manners of the venerable Robert Grossetete [sic], Bishop of Lincoln, from his own works and from contemporary Writers’. In preparation, he had read widely and painstakingly; the works cited by him are listed on pp. 231-4 of this edition. Perry organized the material into four books, each containing short chapters. He had no doubt as to Grosseteste’s greatness: the Bishop was variously ‘our heroe’, ‘[o]ur most meek Prelate’, ‘our judicious Prelate’, ‘our active Prelate’, ‘our penetrating Prelate’, ‘our generous Prelate’, ‘[o]ur intrepid Prelate’, and ‘our strenuous and patriot Prelate’. Therefore one object of the ‘Essay’, Perry stated in his Preface,","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44556601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ing that can tell us a great deal about the multidimensional ways in which the English, the Portuguese and the Spanish read and understood each other. This volume is a fresh and welcome reinterpretation of a field that has traditionally been confined to axiomatic interpretations of AngloSpanish enmity and Anglo-Portuguese and Hiberno-Spanish amity. It is undeniable that those tendencies were there, but the present work allows us to picture Anglo-Hiberno-Iberian relations in all their variety and complexity. In exploring the transnational dimension of these relations from different angles—encountering, narrating, reading—Exile, Diplomacy and Texts succeeds unambiguously in its aim to counter some of the oversimplified narratives that have at times characterised the field. This collection of essays, intelligently put together, beautifully written, and thoughtfully edited, is an example of multidisciplinary scholarship at its best and is sure to make an impact in the multiple fields to which it contributes—religious, political, diplomatic, military and literary history. This book is, without a doubt, a prime example of generative British-Hiberno-Iberian collaboration and a much-needed breath of fresh air in a subject which continues to bear fruit.
{"title":"Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower, eds. Mary I in writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation, Cham : Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2022, pp. xvii, 298, £109.99, ISBN: 978-3-030-95127-6","authors":"Peter Stiffell","doi":"10.1017/bch.2022.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.26","url":null,"abstract":"ing that can tell us a great deal about the multidimensional ways in which the English, the Portuguese and the Spanish read and understood each other. This volume is a fresh and welcome reinterpretation of a field that has traditionally been confined to axiomatic interpretations of AngloSpanish enmity and Anglo-Portuguese and Hiberno-Spanish amity. It is undeniable that those tendencies were there, but the present work allows us to picture Anglo-Hiberno-Iberian relations in all their variety and complexity. In exploring the transnational dimension of these relations from different angles—encountering, narrating, reading—Exile, Diplomacy and Texts succeeds unambiguously in its aim to counter some of the oversimplified narratives that have at times characterised the field. This collection of essays, intelligently put together, beautifully written, and thoughtfully edited, is an example of multidisciplinary scholarship at its best and is sure to make an impact in the multiple fields to which it contributes—religious, political, diplomatic, military and literary history. This book is, without a doubt, a prime example of generative British-Hiberno-Iberian collaboration and a much-needed breath of fresh air in a subject which continues to bear fruit.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44213464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
‘This article traces and examines the career of Bishop George Hay (1729-1811), Vicar Apostolic of the lowland district of Scotland, through the lens of his application of the theological principles of passive obedience and non-resistance to criticise revolutionary ideology. This philosophy, which had previously informed the Catholic Church’s response to the Jacobite cause, was transformed by Hay into an effective analytical tool and weapon to be employed by the Church in Britain against the revolutionary movements that developed in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century. This is a well-argued and fluently-written article. The evidence, which is dexterously handled, is identified and gathered from a broad range of primary and secondary sources, including the most recent research findings. The author provides in the opening pages an impressively succinct summary of the historical background of the subject and skillfully sets the context for the argument and discussion which follow. This is an important piece of original research. The wide range of sources used and the excellent scholarly method and apparatus employed are admirably supported by the narrative skills of the author which ensure that the argument remains lucid and accessible as it is unfolded. The article makes an important contribution to the canon.’
{"title":"Prize Announcement: The British Catholic History Best Article Prize","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/bch.2022.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.1","url":null,"abstract":"‘This article traces and examines the career of Bishop George Hay (1729-1811), Vicar Apostolic of the lowland district of Scotland, through the lens of his application of the theological principles of passive obedience and non-resistance to criticise revolutionary ideology. This philosophy, which had previously informed the Catholic Church’s response to the Jacobite cause, was transformed by Hay into an effective analytical tool and weapon to be employed by the Church in Britain against the revolutionary movements that developed in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century. This is a well-argued and fluently-written article. The evidence, which is dexterously handled, is identified and gathered from a broad range of primary and secondary sources, including the most recent research findings. The author provides in the opening pages an impressively succinct summary of the historical background of the subject and skillfully sets the context for the argument and discussion which follow. This is an important piece of original research. The wide range of sources used and the excellent scholarly method and apparatus employed are admirably supported by the narrative skills of the author which ensure that the argument remains lucid and accessible as it is unfolded. The article makes an important contribution to the canon.’","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43530632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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