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Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.
This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the role of the Society of Jesus in the development of British and Irish Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation. The stable communities of religious in mainland Europe also acted as important centres of religious and secular activity. This volume explores the ways in which British and Irish conventuals and monastics, both men and women, engaged with the seismic religious and philosophical developments of the early modern period, such as the Catholic Reformation and the Enlightenment in mainland Europe, as well as important political developments at 'home', exploring the connections between centres and peripheries. Building on recent movements within the field to 'decentralise' the Catholic Reformation and recognize the international nature of Catholicism, the volume aims to change the perception that the activities of British and Irish religious were 'peripheral', bringing the islands' experience in line with work on their European confreres and the broader global network of the religious orders.
This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the role of the Society of Jesus in the development of British and Irish Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation. The stable communities of religious in mainland Europe also acted as important centres of religious and secular activity. This volume explores the ways in which British and Irish conventuals and monastics, both men and women, engaged with the seismic religious and philosophical developments of the early modern period, such as the Catholic Reformation and the Enlightenment in mainland Europe, as well as important political developments at 'home', exploring the connections between centres and peripheries. Building on recent movements within the field to 'decentralise' the Catholic Reformation and recognize the international nature of Catholicism, the volume aims to change the perception that the activities of British and Irish religious were 'peripheral', bringing the islands' experience in line with work on their European confreres and the broader global network of the religious orders.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 264
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Durham University IMEMS Press
Publication Date:
03 November 2026
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781914967405
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / History, History of religion, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), European history
A remarkably fresh and highly important contribution to the historiography of early modern Catholicism. Kelly and Begadon's volume sets a new research agenda, which ought to shape the field in the years to come.
A wide-ranging and insightful volume. Scholars interested in monasticism, precursors of the Enlightenment, and early modern British and Irish history should not miss the essays included in this collection.
Readers will gain greater understanding of the valuable and varied contributions that conventuals and monastics made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they will come away from the book with a greater appreciation for the "conventual and monastic movement as a collective whole.
A wide-ranging and insightful volume. Scholars interested in monasticism, precursors of the Enlightenment, and early modern British and Irish history should not miss the essays included in this collection.
Readers will gain greater understanding of the valuable and varied contributions that conventuals and monastics made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they will come away from the book with a greater appreciation for the "conventual and monastic movement as a collective whole.
Introduction
Cormac Begadon and James E. Kelly
Part 1: Creating and Maintaining Identities
1. Cloistered yet Militant: Commitment to Englishness in Seventeenth-Century Convents in Exile on the Continent
Laurence Lux-Sterritt
2. The Regular Clergy and the Episcopate in Ireland, 1600-1650
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
3. Recycling an Island's Past for a Global Catholicism: Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century
John McCafferty
Part 2: The Relationship between Home and Exile
4. Surviving in Exile: Strategies and Supporters of the English Convents in Exile, c.1600-c.1800
Caroline Bowden
5. 'A mixt life'? English Benedictines and European Catholic Reform Movements: Monasticism and Apostolic Mission
James E. Kelly
6. Cloistered Politics: English Benedictine Nuns and the Stuarts, 1600-1700
Jaime Goodrich
Part 3: Space and Place
7. I am all good and fill all places': Mystical Space and the Affective Atmosphere in a Seventeenth-Century Convent
Jessica McCandless
8. The Exiled English Religious Orders and their Continental Gardens from Exile to Emancipation
Geoffrey Scott
9. The Irish Regulars in Early-Modern Paris: a re-examination
Liam Chambers
Part 4: Intellectual Movements
10. A Scottish Enlightenment in Germany
Thomas McInally
11. The 'Fifth Vial': Charles Walmesley's Ultramontane Apocalypticism
Shaun Blanchard
12. Meandering Towards an Inevitable Death? English Benedictine Monasteries and their Responses to Enlightenment and Revolution
Cormac Begadon
Index
Cormac Begadon and James E. Kelly
Part 1: Creating and Maintaining Identities
1. Cloistered yet Militant: Commitment to Englishness in Seventeenth-Century Convents in Exile on the Continent
Laurence Lux-Sterritt
2. The Regular Clergy and the Episcopate in Ireland, 1600-1650
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
3. Recycling an Island's Past for a Global Catholicism: Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century
John McCafferty
Part 2: The Relationship between Home and Exile
4. Surviving in Exile: Strategies and Supporters of the English Convents in Exile, c.1600-c.1800
Caroline Bowden
5. 'A mixt life'? English Benedictines and European Catholic Reform Movements: Monasticism and Apostolic Mission
James E. Kelly
6. Cloistered Politics: English Benedictine Nuns and the Stuarts, 1600-1700
Jaime Goodrich
Part 3: Space and Place
7. I am all good and fill all places': Mystical Space and the Affective Atmosphere in a Seventeenth-Century Convent
Jessica McCandless
8. The Exiled English Religious Orders and their Continental Gardens from Exile to Emancipation
Geoffrey Scott
9. The Irish Regulars in Early-Modern Paris: a re-examination
Liam Chambers
Part 4: Intellectual Movements
10. A Scottish Enlightenment in Germany
Thomas McInally
11. The 'Fifth Vial': Charles Walmesley's Ultramontane Apocalypticism
Shaun Blanchard
12. Meandering Towards an Inevitable Death? English Benedictine Monasteries and their Responses to Enlightenment and Revolution
Cormac Begadon
Index