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Henry Piers's continental travels, 1595-1598 / edited by Brian Mac Cuarta SJ

Piers, Henry, 1567-1623 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Mac Cuarta, Brian, 1957- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town, South Africa : Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2018

xiii, 238 Seiten : 3 Karten ; 23 cm

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [221]-225. - Mit Register

978-1-108-49677-3 (Festeinband : GBP 44.99)

OCoLC: 1057336918     

Reisebericht, 1595-1598

NN 3140  | LB 18005      Ähnliche Literatur

914.5632047

Basisklassifikation: 15.64 (Großbritannien; Irland) <Geschichte> ; 15.67 (Italien) <Geschichte>

* Piers, Henry [1567-1623] ; Rom ; Reise ; Konversion <Religion> ; Katholizismus ; Geschichte ; Reisebericht      Zum Register

*Reisebericht, Ms. Rawlinson D. 83 (Bodleian Library) ; Reisebericht      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Piers, Henry -- Travel -- Italy -- Rome ; Conversion -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century ; Rome (Italy) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church ; Spain -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church

Travel writing ; Piers, Henry ; Europe

"The text, published here for the first time, is a significant addition to Elizabethan travel writing and religious autobiography. It describes a journey in 1595 to Rome through the Low Countries, Germany, and Italy. The author describes life in Rome (he was based in the English College, 1595-1597), including an encounter with the Inquisition, and an account of the ghetto; his work is unusual among contemporary memoirs because it includes a narration of his subsequent sojourn in Spain in 1598. The book affords a rare lay perspective on conversion to Catholicism and its value is heightened by the author's origins in Ireland and connections in England, thus illuminating a recusant community which straddled both realms. As an eye-witness, the author offers fresh and individual insights on the Elizabethan Catholic diaspora in Rome and Spain during the turbulent decade of the 1590s." (Loser Schutzumschlag)