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Condizione: New. 2018. hardcover. . . . . .

Condizione: New. 2018. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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, 1595-97), 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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 238 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Henry Piers's Continental Travels, 1595-8 | Brian Maccuarta Sj | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2018 | Cambridge University Press | EAN 9781108496773 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…