Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England details the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism. Almost two hundred Catholics felt compelled to exile themselves from England rather than conform with the religious reformations inaugurated by Henry
VIII and Edward VI. Frederick E. Smith explores how these �migr�s' physical mobility reconfigured their relationships with the men and women they left behind, and how it forced them to develop new relationships with individuals they encountered abroad. It analyses how the experiences of mobility and
displacement catalysed a shift in their religious identities, in some ways broadening but in others narrowing their understandings of what it meant to be 'Catholic'. The author examines the role of these �migr�s as agents of religious exchange, circulating new doctrinal and devotional ideas
throughout western Europe and forging new connections between them. By focussing particularly upon those individuals who subsequently returned to their homeland during Mary I's Catholic counter-reformation, the study also explores the lasting legacies of these �migr�s' displacement and mobility,
both for the �migr�s themselves as they grappled with the difficulties of re-integration, but also for the broader development of English Catholicism. In this way, Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England deepens our understanding of the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which exile
shapes religio-political identities, but also underlines the importance of international mobility as a crucial factor in the development of English Catholicism and the wider European Catholic Church over the mid sixteenth century.
Author(s): Frederick E. Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 296
City: New York
Cover
Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England: Mobility, Exile and Counter-Reformation, 1530–1580
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Note on the Text
Introduction
Early Modern Exile and Mobility
Exile, Internationalism and English Catholicism
De-Centring the Counter-Reformation
Henrician and Edwardian Catholic Émigrés
Sources and Approach
PART I: DEPARTURE
1: Motivations for Leaving
1.1 Near-Contemporary Histories
1.2 Personal Exile Accounts
1.3 Government Sources
1.4 A Disorderly Exit
1.5 Conclusion
PART II: TRANSLATION
2: Theologies and Spiritualitiesin Translation
2.1 Translations Across Time
2.2 Translations Across Space
2.3 Translations Across ‘Confessions’
2.4 Conclusion
3: Exile, Radicalisation and Reconciliation
3.1 A Widening Rift
3.2 The Exile Effect
3.3 Conclusion
PART III: REPATRIATION
4: Life after Exile
4.1 Homecoming Heroes?
4.2 Exile and Disloyalty
4.3 The Myth of Banishment
4.4 Conclusion
5: Agents of the MarianCounter-Reformation
5.1 Means and Motivation
5.2 Enforcing Papal Obedience
5.3 Reforming Piety and Spirituality
5.3.1 Print and Pulpit
5.3.2 Reforming the Clergy
5.3.3 Restoring Monasticism
5.4 The ‘Protestant Problem’
5.5 Conclusion
PART IV: LEGACIES
6: Elizabethan Legacies
6.1 Elizabethan Catholic Exile
6.2 Devotional Practices
6.3 The Question of Conformity
6.4 Catholic Reform
6.5 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Archival Sources
Cambridge, University Library
Cambridge, St John’s College
Cambridge, Trinity College
Hertfordshire, Hatfield House
London, British Library
London, Inner Temple
London, National Archives
Lucca, Archivio di Stato
Oxford, Bodleian Library
Rome, Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe
St Andrews, University Library
Vatican City, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Vatican City, Rome, Archivio Segreto Vaticano
Westminster, Parliamentary Archives
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
