The rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies, and its integration into the wider historiographical project, continues to focus attention on Robert Persons as one of the most significant public figures of the Reformation era in England. As the superior of the Jesuit English mission from 1580 until 1610, he was engaged in a controversial campaign for the reconversion of England that had wide political, ecclesiastical, pastoral, and polemical ramifications. Modern scholarship is engaged in lively debate over his role in international relations and conflicts within British Catholicism.
This volume of Robert Persons's correspondence is centred on his eight-year sojourn in Spain following the failure of the Spanish armada of 1588. It was a period of incessant activity and constant travelling as he negotiated with the royal court and Spanish Jesuits, founded English seminaries in Valladolid and Seville, supervised the mission to England, and promoted the Catholic cause in printed works such as the Philopater and the Conference about the Next Succession. Increasing opposition amongst Catholic exiles in Flanders and Rome prompted him to return to Rome in 1597 to deal with disaffected students at the English College.
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