Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network : Ireland, Rome and the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century

Matteo Binasco

ISBN 10: 3030473716 / ISBN 13: 9783030473716

Editore: Springer International Publishing, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development.

Codice articolo 9783030473716

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• Titolo: Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network : Ireland, Rome and the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century
• Editore: Springer International Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030473716
• ISBN 13: 9783030473716
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 153 A x 21 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 21 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 498 grammi

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Riassunto

This book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development. 

Informazioni sull?autore

Matteo Binasco is Adjunct Professor in Early Modern History at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. His research interests are in Irish migrations across the Atlantic and to Rome during the early modern period. He is author of Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763-1939 (2018) and editor of two volumes, Rome and Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World, 1622-1908 (2018) and Luke Wadding, the Irish Franciscans, and Global Catholicism (2020).