English catholicism and the Jesuit mission of 1580–1581

Autor:	Michael L. Carrafiello
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	History Politics Principal (commercial law) media_common.quotation_subject Face (sociological concept) Religious studies Theology Persecution media_common Courage
Zdroj:	The Historical Journal. 37:761-774
ISSN:	1469-5103 0018-246X
DOI:	10.1017/s0018246x00015089
Popis:	Historians have misunderstood the fundamental nature of the English Jesuit mission of 1580–1. Beginning with A.O. Meyer in 1916 and continuing through John Bossy and Christopher Haigh in the 1970s and 1980s, historians have mistakenly characterized this mission as essentially pastoral. They have admired the Jesuit priests for their personal courage in the face of persecution but have simultaneously criticized them for their inability to sustain English catholicism among the laity. But in fact the mission was fundamentally political in nature, and Robert Parsons in particular hoped to use the mission to return England to the catholic fold, by force if necessary. Parsons's designs on Scotland and on James VI in the early 1580s are especially illuminating in this regard. The English mission failed in this its principal goal, and the exact nature of the missioners' failure must be understood for what it was.
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