Table of Contents

Contents: Series editor's preface; Introduction; The debate before and after the excommunication; The political significance of the first mission of the Society of Jesus to England; Old ideas and new interpretations at the end of Elizabeth's reign; 'Smile (Muses) smile! A noble one succeeds/ Eliza lawfull heire in vertuous deedes': the ascent of James Stuart; The Oath of Allegiance; Bellarmine's solution; A change in the political debate; A change in the theological debate; Conclusions; Selected bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Stefania Tutino is Professor in the Department of History, University of California - Santa Barbara, USA.

Reviews

’... intriguing seminal study... This provocative book, based on manuscript and printed primary and secondary sources and featuring a very useful bibliography, may be especially useful in identifying new topics for dissertations and theses. Highly recommended.’ Choice ’This is a fine piece of archival scholarship. ... a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion on the development of the state in early modern Europe. With its extensive bibliography and useful index, this book will be an invaluable source not only for historians but for scholars of other disciplines working in the period.’ History, the Journal of the Historical Association ’The most important service which the author performs to scholarship, however, is to reveal the extent and nature of the disagreements which prevailed, particularly among the catholic protagonists... This is altogether a most illuminating study.’ Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte ’... this is an important work which should be read by everyone interested in Elizabethan and Jacobean Christianity.’ Archivum Historicum, S. I. ’This scholarly and lucidly written book makes a significant contribution to the history of post-Reformation English Catholicism.’ Catholic Historical Review