Table of Contents

Publishers’ Note; Series Editor’s Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations; Chapter One The Legend of Father Parsons; Chapter Two The English Mission: Writing The Christian Directory; Chapter Three The Spanish Connection: Satirizing Burghley; Chapter Four The Myth of England’s Catholic Destiny: Persons’s Political Vision; Chapter Five Reclaiming the Past: Combating Foxe and Coke; Chapter Six A Jesuit Apologia: Appellant Abuse; Chapter Seven Making England Safe for Catholicism: Liberty of Conscience under James; Chapter Eight Mastering the Polemical Scene;

About the Author

Victor Houliston is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Reviews

’... a wholly convincing and reasoned reconsideration of Persons...’ The Tablet ’Victor Houliston’s critical history of the career of Robert Persons makes a timely contribution to scholarship on early modern English Catholicism.’ Review of English Studies ’So easily does Houliston take the reader into the arguments that one might be in the debating chamber with Persons and his Protestant antagonists. Indeed, Houliston appears to have immersed himself in Persons’s work for so long that history has become a mere slip of time and Robert Persons has become as familiar to him as his own family might be.’ Recusant History ’... Houliston’s work makes a strong contribution to Catholic Reformation thought and historical literary studies.’ Religious Studies Review