The English Catholic community, 1688-1745: politics, culture and ideology
The half-century following the Glorious Revolution has been viewed as a time of retreat and withdrawal for English Catholics: the response to tightening penal laws, periods in exile and the failures of the Jacobite cause. This book argues that the perception has arisen because research has been dire...
| Summary: | The half-century following the Glorious Revolution has been viewed as a time of retreat and withdrawal for English Catholics: the response to tightening penal laws, periods in exile and the failures of the Jacobite cause. This book argues that the perception has arisen because research has been directed into the wrong places. It aims to recapture the eighteenth-century Catholic 'recusant' imagination through a study of hitherto unexplored treatises, manuscript literature and private correspondence preserved in family and religious archives. Contrary to the image of seclusion, Catholic lives were penetrated by questions of national identity, religious liberty and the authority of an international church: conflicts experienced not merely within their own nation, but in the European courts, seminaries and universities that supported them in exile. Their writings can be understood as commentaries on the state of a community trapped between the political, cultural and intellectual divisions that cut across the Roman Catholic world. Many were actively promoting change in church and state within Britain and Europe, and their arguments shaped the emergence of a 'Catholic Enlightenment' that outlasted the commitment to Jacobitism. 'The English Catholic Community' investigates Catholic education and family life, scholarship, poetry and spirituality. It offers a fresh contribution to debates surrounding the history of the Jacobite movement, the construction of British national identity, and the origins of the Enlightenment. Gabriel Glickman is a lecturer in history at the University of Oxford. Introduction -- English Catholics and the glorious revolution of 1688 -- The making of the Catholic gentry in England and in exile -- Conscience, politics and the exiled court : the creation of the Catholic Jacobite manifesto, 1689-1718 -- Catholic politics in England, 1688-1745 -- Unity, heresy and disillusionment : Christendom, Rome and the Catholic Jacobites -- The English Catholic clergy and the creation of a Jacobite Church -- The English Catholic reformers and the Jacobite diaspora -- Conclusion -- Appendices. English Catholics and their families in residence at the court of St Germain, c. 1694-1701 ; Commissions to English Catholics given out by the exiled court, 1689-1693 ; Vicars Apostolic in England, 1685-1750 ; Genealogical tables : the Howards of Norfolk and the Carylls of West Harting |
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| ISBN: | 1846157196 |