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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

by Spencer J. Weinreich

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.8 x 23.7 x 5.1 cm

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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.

  • Title

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

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    March 2017

  • Weight

    1340g

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.7 x 5.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004323957

  • ISBN-10

    9004323953

  • Eden Code

    5610196

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