The Elizabethan Catholic Underground

Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-42640-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

This is the first book-length study dedicated entirely to the clandestine print and scribal culture of members of the international Elizabethan Catholic underground, c. 1558-1603. Close studies offer fresh material textual evidence of a truly cosmopolitan, polyglot, and trans-European community of domestic and exiled English Catholics, moving well beyond the British Isles to the Dutch Low Countries, France, Poland, Spain, and Italy. Explorations of book smuggling networks, clandestine printers, secret Catholic libraries, illicit scribal publications, international patronage and finance, and press censorship combine in this volume to shed new light on an otherwise shadowy, often subversive, but still relatively understudied early modern book culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Havens, Earle

Rankin, Mark

Über Autor(innen)

Earle Havens, PhD, is the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book, with Walter Stephens, is Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 (2017). He has several other co-authored volumes in press, including an extensive study of the Elizabethan Catholic earl of Arundel Philip Howard and his wife the Countess Anne Howard.

Mark Rankin, PhD, is Professor of English at James Madison University. He is the co-editor of Henry VIII and His Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art (Cambridge, 2009), contributing editor of Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521-1642 (Oxford, 2017), and Editor of the journal Reformation. He is completing critical scholarly editions of William Tyndale’s The Practyse of Prelates and The Bale-Cancellar Controversy.