{"id":4118,"date":"2018-09-13T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=4118"},"modified":"2019-01-03T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:34:07","slug":"september-2018-new-account-on-english-laymans-encounters-with-jesuits-in-the-1590s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=4118","title":{"rendered":"September 2018: New Account on English Layman&#8217;s Encounters with Jesuits in the 1590s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest edition of Cambridge University Press&#8217;s Camden Series of annotated primary source documents features &#8220;the continental travels of the Irish landowner Henry Piers and his conversion to the Catholic faith in Rome, during the heightened political and confession tensions of the 1590s.&#8221; The volume is edited and introduced by\u00a0Brian Mac Cuarta, SJ, the director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjweb.info\/arsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest in this document are the recollections that Piers has of his encounters with Jesuits in Rome and Spain. For example, as Mac Cuarta notes on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.royalhistsoc.org\/2018\/08\/28\/new-camden-volume-on-henry-piers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog of the Royal Historical Society<\/a><\/strong>, Piers stayed at Rome&#8217;s English College, where, &#8220;under Jesuit guidance, he deepened his knowledge of the Catholic faith, and followed the seminary courses in philosophy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The volume of &#8220;Piers\u2019s account,&#8221; Mac Cuarta continues, &#8220;adds vivid detail to our understanding of the febrile world of the Elizabethan Catholic exiles in late sixteenth-century Rome, where spies mingled with seminarians, and an appearance before the Inquisition was normal for many northern Europeans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Piers\u2019s travels continued into Spain, &#8220;where he visited English Jesuit colleges in Valladolid and Seville,&#8221; hinting at connections he made through the Jesuit Robert Persons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information about <em>Henry Piers&#8217;s Continental Travels, 1595\u20131598<\/em>&#8211;including Mac Cuarta&#8217;s helpful introduction and bibliography&#8211;is available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/royal-historical-society-camden-fifth-series\/volume\/2C861E64CC8B02385C34C2BE142370D2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge University Press website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest edition of Cambridge University Press&#8217;s Camden Series of annotated primary source documents features &#8220;the continental travels of the Irish landowner Henry Piers and his conversion to the Catholic faith in Rome, during the heightened political and confession tensions of the 1590s.&#8221; The volume is edited and introduced by\u00a0Brian Mac Cuarta, SJ, the director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":4894,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4118","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4118\/revisions\/4122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}