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Pedro de Ribadeneyra's 'Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England': A Spanish Jesuit's History of the English Reformation

Pedro de Ribadeneyra's 'Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England': A Spanish Jesuit's History of the English Reformation

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 9004323953
ISBN13: 9789004323957
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 16 2017
Pages: 840
Weight: 2.95
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich's translation is the first English edition of the History, one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich's introduction explores the text's many dimensions--propaganda for the Spanish Armada, anti-Protestant polemic, Jesuit hagiography, consolation amid tribulation--and assesses Ribadeneyra as a historian. The extensive annotations anchor Ribadeneyra's narrative in the historical record and reconstruct his sources, methods, and revisions. The History, long derided as mere propaganda, emerges as remarkable evidence of the centrality of historiography to the intellectual, theological, and political battles of early modern Europe.

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