Confessionalism and Mobility in Early Modern Ireland

This book provides an entirely new perspective on religious change in Early Modern Ireland by tracing the constant and ubiquitous impact of mobility on the development and maintenance of the island's competing confessional groupings.

List of contents

• Part I: Mobility and the Evolution of Confessional Communities in Ireland


• Introduction


• 1: Professionalization Abroad: The shaping of the Catholic Clergy in Early Modern Ireland


• 2: Continuities through Change


• 3: Confessional Mobility of Secular Catholics


• 4: The Established Church


• 5: The Mobility of Protestant Dissent


• Part II: Mobility Practices, ideas and influences


• 6: Figurative Images of Mobility


• 7: Practices of Religious Mobility


• 8: Migrant Consciousness and Catholic Confessional Identity Texts


• 9: The Impact of Mobility on the Imagination of Protestant Identity


• Conclusion

About the author

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin is a Professor of History in University College Dublin. His research concentrates on the transnational dimensions of religious change in Early Modern Europe, a field in which he has published six books and over forty articles. He was the co-PI of the Insular Christianity project, funded by the Irish Research Council, 2008-12.

Summary

This book provides an entirely new perspective on religious change in Early Modern Ireland by tracing the constant and ubiquitous impact of mobility on the development and maintenance of the island's competing confessional groupings.

Additional text

This is a significant book, essential reading for historians of Ireland, but one with ramifications well beyond the island. Indeed, while Ó hAnnracháin does not make the point, it is a book with far-reaching implications beyond the study of history.

Product details

• Authors: Tadhg (Professor in the School of H O Hannrachain, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2021
• EAN: 9780198870913
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887091-3
• No. of pages: 386
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Ireland, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Church history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599