The Reckoned Expense Edmund Campion And The Early English Jesuits. [Hardcover]

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 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. THOMAS M. MCCOOG, S.J. is the Archivist of the British province of the Society of Jesus and a member of the Jesuit Historical Institute at Rome. Contributors: FRANCISCO DE BORJA MEDINA, JOHN BOSSY, NANCY POLLARD BROWN, KATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES, DENNIS FLYNN, VICTOR HOULISTON, JOHN J. LAROCCA, COLM LENNON, DAVID LOADES, JAMES MCCONICA, THOMAS M. MCCOOG, THOMAS MAYER, MICHAEL QUESTIER, ALISON SHELL, MICHAEL E. WILLIAMSEssays exploring different facets of the life and influence of Edmund Campion, the sixteenth-century Jesuit and martyr.``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 LoadesA test of wills: Cardinal Pole, Ignatius Loyola, and the Jesuits in England - Thomas MayerThe catholic experience in tudor Oxford - James McConicaEdmund Campion's Histories of Ireland and reform in tudor Ireland - Colm LennonSir 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 BossyWhy 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 FlynnRobert Southwell: the missl“m