Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Francis Young's Survey of English Reformation History Scholarship

I do not have access to this review article which Francis Young announced on his blog:

My review article ‘Surveying a Field Come of Age’ has just been published in the journal British Catholic History. The book is a review of Robert E. Scully and Angela Ellis’s Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland, but also goes beyond that to take stock of the historiography of early modern British Catholicism and the field’s recent evolution. The appearance of summative companions like Scully and Ellis’s is an indication that the field is approaching, or has attained, maturity and is seeking ways to define its identity and communicate it to scholars in other disciplines as well as to the wider public.

Nevertheless, I just wanted to capture this great list of references I can see:

1. See Christopher Haigh, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975); Christopher Haigh, The English Reformation Revised (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

2. Alexandra Walsham, Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Boydell, 1999).

3. See, for example, Michael Questier, Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580–1625 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Michael Questier, Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550–1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Peter Lake and Michael Questier, All Hail to the Archpriest: Confessional Conflict, Toleration, and the Politics of Publicity in Post-Reformation England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

4. John Bossy, The English Catholic Community 1570–1850 (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1975).

5. Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009).

6. Frederick Smith, ‘The Origins of Recusancy in Elizabethan England Reconsidered’, The Historical Journal 60:2 (2017): 301–32.

7. Ceri Law, Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535–1584 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018).

8. Katy Gibbons, English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-Century Paris (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011); Liesbeth Corens, Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

9. Gabriel Glickman, The English Catholic Community, 1688–1745: Politics, Culture and Ideology (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009); James Kelly, English Convents in Catholic Europe, c. 1600–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

10. R. Po-chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); Ulrich Lehner, The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

11. See, for example, James Kelly and Hannah Thomas, eds. Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789: ‘The World is our House’ (Leiden: Brill, 2018); Teresa Bela, Clarinda Calma and Jolanta Rzegocka, eds. Publishing Subversive Texts in Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

12. Richard P. Williams, ed. Mannock Strickland (1683 – 1744): Agent to English Convents in Flanders: Letters and Accounts from Exile (Woodbridge: Catholic Record Society, 2016); Philip Perry, Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste, ed. Jack Cunningham (Woodbridge: Catholic Record Society, 2022).

13. Victoria Moul, A Literary History of Latin and English Poetry: Bilingual Verse Culture in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

14. Emilie Murphy, ‘Adoramus te Christe: Music and Post-Reformation English Catholic Domestic Piety’, Studies in Church History 50 (2014): 240–53; Emilie Murphy, ‘Music and Catholic Culture in Post-Reformation Lancashire: Piety, Protest and Conversion’, British Catholic History 32:4 (2015): 492–525.

As Young indicates, the field of English Reformation and Early Modern Catholic history has come a long way from the days when Maurice Powicke's The Reformation in England and H. Outram Evennett's The Spirit of the Counter-Reformation were highlights of the academic, non-confessional study of that era. It's just too bad, for me at least, that so many of these resources are so expensive! The book that tops his review essay, for example, costs $299.00!

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