Presenting a study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, this work also focuses, through him, on England's passage from Catholicism to Anglicanism, and the resistance to that move. The essays investigate the historical context of Campion's mission, different aspects of his writing and work, the network of colleagues with whom he was in contact, his relationship with contemporaries such as Sir Philip Sidney, the effect of Campion's English mission, and the legacy he left.