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This volume forms the first modern study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, and through him focuses on a theme that has been attracting growing interest among sixteenth-century historians: the passage from a Catholic to an Anglican England, and the resistance to this move. The title of the volume takes up a phrase of Campion's, 'The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun...'. The essays collected here investigate the historical context of Campion's mission; different aspects of his writing and work; the network of colleagues with whom he was in contact; his relationship with contemporaries such as Sir Philip Sidney; the effect of his English mission; and the legacy he left.
List of contents
``We Are Made a Spectacle': Campion's Dramas'. -
The spirituality of the restored catholic church (1553-1558) in the context of the counter reformation - David M Loades
A test of wills: Cardinal Pole, Ignatius Loyola, and the Jesuits in England - Thomas Mayer
The catholic experience in tudor Oxford - James McConica
Edmund Campion's Histories of Ireland and reform in tudor Ireland - Colm Lennon
Sir Philip Sidney's debt to Edmund Campion - Katherine Duncan-Jones
`We are made a spectacle': Campion's dramas - Alison Shell
`Playing the Champion': the role of disputation in the Jesuit mission - Thomas M McCoog, S.J.
The heart of Robert Persons - John Bossy
Why Robert Persons would not be pacified: Edmund Bunny's theft of The Book of Resolution - Victor Houliston
`Out of Step': six supplementary notes on Jasper Heywood - Dennis Flynn
Robert Southwell: the mission of the written word - Nancy Pollard Brown
Intrigues of a Scottish Jesuit at the Spanish Court: unpublished letters of William Crichton to Claudio Acquaviva (Madrid 1590- 1592)1592) - Francisco De B. Medina, S.J.
Popery and Pounds: the effect of the Jesuit mission on penal legislation - John La Rocca, S.J.
`Like locusts over all the world': conversion, indoctrination and the society of Jesus in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England - Michael Questier
Campion and the English continental seminaries - Michael Williams
About the author
Thomas M. McCoog S.J.
