Robert Persons S.J., the Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11009-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 949 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This volume presents a critical edition of the immensely influential and popular first version of The Christian Directory, by the notorious Elizabethan Jesuit leader, Robert Persons. It was written during and immediately after the English Mission of 1580-1, which ended with the martyrdom of his companion Edmund Campion.
Persons's work, originally entitled The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution, attempts to persuade the reader to be resolved in the service of God. It deals with the motives and obstacles to such resolution.
This edition includes a full apparatus of the alterations made to Persons's work by the Edmund Bunny, whose Protestant edition became an Elizabethan bestseller. It will be particularly useful to historians of the Catholic reformation and students of early modern English prose.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Persons S. J., Robert

Houliston, Victor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Houliston, D.Phil. (1986) in English Literature, Oxford University, teaches English at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His publications include a critical edition of Thomas Moffet's The Silkewormes and their Flies (Renaissance English Text Society, 1989).