Rehabilitating Robert Persons: Then and Now

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dc.contributor.authorHouliston, Victor
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-30T17:02:31Z
dc.date.available2021-01-30T17:02:31Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractRobert Persons (1546–1610) is a radically ambivalent figure in English Reformation history. In the Jesuit tradition, he is honoured as superior of the first English mission, in which he succoured and defended the English Catholic community both by his publications and by his pastoral oversight. But he was virulently attacked in his own day by the Elizabethan authorities, by Protestant patriots and by secular Catholic priests engaged in the Archpriest Controversy. Later, Protestant historiography, particularly in the nineteenth century, perpetuated the ‘black legend’ of Jesuit cunning, equivocation and treachery, while anti-Jesuit Catholic historians argued that Persons’s political militancy was a betrayal of his priestly vocation. The development of early-modern Catholic studies as an independent field of research has allowed for a more balanced picture to emerge.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHouliston V. (2021) Rehabilitating Robert Persons: Then and Now. In: Crankshaw D.J., Gross G.W.C. (eds) Reformation Reputations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55434-7_10en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549406
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringeren_ZA
dc.subjectArchpriest Controversyen_ZA
dc.subjectVenerable English College, Romeen_ZA
dc.subjectJesuit historyen_ZA
dc.subjectRecusancyen_ZA
dc.titleRehabilitating Robert Persons: Then and Nowen_ZA
dc.typeBook chapteren_ZA
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