On Becket's day (29 Dec), read how his figure was remembered at the end of the 16th century from Spain
#Becket #exile #recusants #ElizabethI #HenryVIII

E duobus elige: The Becket “Devise” and Elizabeth I’s Spanish Dilemma | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core E duobus elige: The Becket “Devise” and Elizabeth I’s Spanish Dilemma - Volume 78 Issue 3

🚨New publication
E duobus elige: The Becket Devise & Elizabeth I’s Spanish Dilemma
Renaissance Quarterly
How does Thomas Becket prompt a political & moral dilemma presented to Elizabeth I?
#recusants #anglospanish #pastintopresent
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... if they did right; they 'perceyve the said recusants to be contented to heare the reading of the worde, [and] wee therfore have the better hope to wynne them further' back to conformity; they also need a preacher (thin on the ground in Lancashire). 5/ #recusants

From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism."

The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!

#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits

Somebody got to look at the #Valladolid folio. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

#recusants
#censorship
#Shakespeare
#HolyOffice
#DiasporicBooks
#cutslikeaknife
#MeasureforMeasure
#KingLear
#FolgerFinds

From the old Colegio de los Irlandeses in #Salamanca, what's left of John #Dryden's *The Spanish Friar*. Not much!

#censorship
#recusants
#IrishinSpain

*Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished*, 1626, a bit mangled, in #Valladolid. How cool is that?

#bookhistory
#EnglishprintSpanishbinding
#BritishbooksontheContinent
#Ovid
#translationhistory
#recusants
#diasporicBooks

For #bookhistory people, those working on #C18 #Shakespeare reception, and anyone working in Anglo-Portuguese studies, this advance article of mine may be of interest. Othello is the earliest work of Shakespeare's to reach the Lusophone world in print.

#Lisbon
#recusants

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