The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits. (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780851155906)

Essays exploring different facets of the life and influence of Edmund Campion, the sixteenth-century Jesuit and martyr.

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 passagefrom 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 withwhom 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 theSociety 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. WILLIAMS

Author: Thomas M. McCoog S. J.
ISBN-10: 0851155901
ISBN-13: 9780851155906
Publisher: Boydell Press
Language: English
Published: 06/29/1996
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d