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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154977103321

Autore

Kilroy Gerard <1945-, >

Titolo

Edmund Campion : a scholarly life / / Gerard Kilroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England : , : Ashgate Pub. Ltd.

Burlington, VT : , : Ashgate Pub. Co., , 2015

ISBN

1-351-96469-0

1-138-08907-9

1-315-26465-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

272.7092

Soggetti

Christian martyrs - Great Britain

England Intellectual life 16th century

England Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An Ashgate Book"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. A spectacle to all the realme -- 2. Among the ruins -- 3. Pilgrim to Rome -- 4. Et in arcadia ego -- 5. All this travail -- 6. An immense harvest -- 7. Captive good -- 8. On the rack -- 9. Upon the publike stage -- 10. The lawes of England -- 11. We are made a spectacle -- 12. The legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

"Edmund Campion has always been the leading Elizabethan martyr, an accolade that overshadowed his early life. This biography assesses the power of Campion's spoken word, in Prague and in England, the disastrous impact of the invasion of Ireland on the Jesuit mission, and the drama of his capture, 'conferences' in the Tower and trial. The warm affection he everywhere inspired, was almost submerged in the controversy that surrounded his execution" --