This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography

Ethan H. Shagan is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley

Contents
Contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: English Catholic history in context - Ethan Shagan
2. Is the pope Catholic? Henry VIII and the semantics of schism - Peter Marshall
3. Confronting compromise: the schism and its legacies in mid-Tudor England - Ethan Shagan
4. Elizabeth and the Catholics - Michael C. Questier
5. Construing martyrdom in the English Catholic community, 1582-1602 - Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
6. From Leicester his Commonwealth to Sejanus his fall: Ben Jonson and the politics of Roman (Catholic) virtue - Peter Lake
7. Papalist political thought and the controversy over the Jacobean oath of allegiance - Johann Sommerville
8. 'Furor juvenilis': post-Reformation English Catholicism and exemplary youthful behavior - Alison Shell
Index