Into the lion's den : the Jesuit mission in Elizabethan England and Wales, 1580-1603 / Robert E. Scully.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scully, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1955-
Corporate Author: Institute of Jesuit Sources
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, MO : Institute of Jesuit Sources, ©2011.
Series:Series III--Original studies, composed in English ; no. 23.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Jesuit mission : its background and organizational framework
  • "The enterprise is begun" : launching and sustaining the mission
  • Questions of priorities : the geography and social topography of Catholic evangelization
  • Elizabethan Wales : a unique challenge and opportunity
  • Behind closed doors : Jesuits and their clandestine ministries
  • Elizabethan Catholic women : their indispensable role in sustaining the Catholic community
  • Religion and politics : the Jesuit mission and the Elizabethan government
  • The shadow of death : persecution, prison life, exile, and execution
  • A house divided? The Jesuits and the other Catholic clergy and religious orders.