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{"title":"Carmen M. Mangion, Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain 1945–90, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, pp. vii + 344, £80.00, ISBN: 9781526140463","authors":"Flora Derounian","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.26","url":null,"abstract":"couples reach mutual orgasm, it did little to alleviate the spiritual and bodily tensions associated with NFP. Geiringer illuminates the tactics devised by Catholic women to release these sexual and marital tensions, such as masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex. Ultimately, it was these physical and emotional struggles that brought about a change in contraceptive behaviours. At times, Geiringer’s analysis could have been pushed further. Studies on reproductive behaviours have shown the plethora of factors that could influence birth control decision-making. For instance, the author does not consider the desire and necessity to limit family size for the well-being of children. Besides the well-analysed emotional and sexual strains posed by the NFP, interviewees’ definition of good parenthood, as well as gendered notions of femininity and masculinity could also have played a role in the advent of a ‘liberal self’. The final chapter explores the acquisition of sexual knowledge in early life. Geiringer argues that early life and premarital sexuality was constitutive rather than determinative in women’s understanding and experience of sexuality. The bigger rupture, this book suggests, could be seen between the interviewee’s upbringing and the upbringing of their own children. Religious ideals and norms informed the interviewees’ sexual development. When the time came to handle this issue with their own children, however, many considered religious codes an ‘obstruction to young people’s “natural” sexual development’ (p. 180). Despite the need to integrate a wider range of sources to situate these Catholic experiences within a broader social and cultural context, Geiringer offers a fascinating account that goes some ways to shed light on hitherto hidden experiences. By putting testimonies centre stage, Geiringer gives voices, for the first time, to the emotional struggles Catholic women experienced in post-war Britain.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"238 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.26","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42687553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peter Lake and Michael Questier, All Hail to the Archpriest: Confessional Conflict, Toleration, and the Politics of Publicity in Post-Reformation England, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xx + 312, £35.00, ISBN: 9780198840343","authors":"James E. Kelly","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.20","url":null,"abstract":"have granted a deeper insight into the social, political, and economic repercussions of his conversion. Piers himself refers suggestively to the ‘troubles crosses or damadges wch I have sustained since I came into this land [i.e. Ireland]’ (p. 216), but Mac Cuarta offers only a brief allusion as to what these difficulties might have been. Further reflection upon Piers’s possible motivations for writing the ‘Discourse’ within the fraught religio-political situation in early seventeenthcentury Ireland, and especially the extent to which this context may have shaped his narrative, might also have been helpful. Nevertheless, Brian Mac Quarta has provided a brilliantly edited resource for early modernists with considerable potential to enhance our understanding of a range of different topics.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"223 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.20","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48222580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Margaret Scull, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1968-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xii + 236, £65, ISBN: 9780198843214","authors":"J. Freytag","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.28","url":null,"abstract":"one official report had it, condemning them as ‘very demanding, ungrateful and even obstreperous (pp. 70–71). Tony Gallagher, despite a couple of misstatements, gives a splendid account of the role of Catholic schools not only for the Catholic community but in the context of the general structure of Northern Ireland society. There are also interesting chapters on sport, Catholicism and politics and a splendid piece, despite its dig at ‘dogmatic Catholicism’ (p. 161), by Niall Gilmartin on the position of women in the Republican movement and the IRA. Aimee Smith ends the collection with a survey of young Catholics and their sense of belonging in a post-conflict world. In general this is a useful collection, but at times it is simply too disparate. There is little attempt by some of the contributors to carefully excavate the raison d’être of the Ulster Catholic community and to address what we are promised in the title: Catholic identities in Ulster. In this regard Tommy McKearney’s piece is outstanding. The index is woefully inadequate and the price will put off all but the more ardent readers. A somewhat cheaper paperback has recently been issued.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"243 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.28","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47225529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bruno Duriez, Olivier Rota, and Catherine Vialle, eds., Femmes catholiques, femmes engagées: France, Belgique, Angleterre, XXe siècle, Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2019, pp. 205, €22, ISBN: 9782757428597","authors":"Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.24","url":null,"abstract":"Unsurprisingly, as she explains, ‘neither the practice of charity nor their relationship with Church and state have had identical or unambiguous meanings’. It is more accurate to describe their work as care than welfare because care was a primary component of the residential homes and training institutions they ran, the social support they provided, and the home visitations and the pastoral parish work they undertook. Providing clarity on this point enables O’Brien to integrate the Scottish dimension effectively and in this she stands apart from most works on Catholic women living in community in Britain and Ireland. Finally, it is important to highlight the long-overdue correction that O’Brien makes to understandings of the term missionary. Contrary to popular opinion, particularly in clerical circles, being a missionary was not the preserve of priests and brothers. The work of female Catholic missionaries was transformative for the Catholic Church and in many respects it was the Daughters of Charity who led the charge. While O’Brien offers an invaluable foundation of information about their missionary work, she admits that this aspect of their work requires a separate history, one that can explore their influence in much more depth. This weighty book is a tour de force and O’Brien deserves much congratulations for undertaking what can only be described as a truly mammoth task. In mapping out the complex history of a group of women who became a lynchpin in the infrastructure of Catholic care provision, she has made a much-needed contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland. If the historical experience of women religious is to be taken seriously, and it must be, then it is imperative that communities reach out to professional historians whose training prevents them from a hagiographic drift. This book is meticulously-researched and sound, and in approaching O’Brien to write their history, the Daughters selected one of the field’s most capable scholars. Thanks to this book, we are that bit closer to understanding just how foundational women, lay and religious, were to extending the mission of the Catholic Church.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"233 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48997962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Susan O’Brien, Leaving God for God: The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul in Britain, 1847–2017, London: Dartman, Longman & Todd, 2017, pp. xiv + 448, £20, ISBN: 9780232532883","authors":"S. K. Kehoe","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.23","url":null,"abstract":"faith, came under threat when an ‘odious woman’ [muliercula] in pursuance of a feud with the man who was shielding him, told the authorities where to find him and ‘described the features of the his face’ [eiusque lineamenta vultus descripsit] so they could not mistake him. He was arrested and imprisoned in chains. But ‘certainly he did not eat his bread in prison as a man of leisure, for he was doing God’s work daily. Thus Catholics were allowed entrance on the pretext of a visit and he daily heard the confessions of many and offered Holy Mass’ (pp. 877–8). He even converted a Cambridge graduate (who had fallen on hard times and was in prison for debt). After several months in prison, Fr Shelton was transported to Barbados but ‘after completing his sentence he returned to Holland and to Ireland’ (p. 878). There is a lot more to these volumes than tales of extraordinary courage and witness.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"231 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42724107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inventorying St Alban’s College Library in 1767: The Process and its Records","authors":"Marta Revilla-Rivas","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.17","url":null,"abstract":"St Alban’s English College in Valladolid, established at the height of the Catholic Reformation for the training of English secular clergy under the rule of Spanish Jesuits, underwent an alteration in its management after the expulsion of the religious order from Spain in 1767. As part of this process, numerous valuable archival records were produced which have not, thus far, been studied. This article analyses a portion of these documents: the surviving manuscript inventories of the library. It also considers the series of governmental orders issued by the Spanish authorities as part of the process of expulsion and examines how these orders shaped the production of the library inventories. It offers an overview of the contents of the catalogues, with descriptions of some of those specific book entries that make these inventories unique. The study of these archival documents provides insight into, and understanding of, a key moment in the College history: its shift from Spanish Jesuit control to an English secular one and the difficulties that the Spanish authorities faced because of this change in the College’s national identity.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"169 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45787591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thomas Paul Burgess, ed., The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. xiii + 263, £110, ISBN: 9783319788036","authors":"O. Rafferty","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.27","url":null,"abstract":"to access. As is often the case with studies of women religious, readers may finish Mangion’s book with an appetite for a comparative study on male religious experiences in the same era. Similarly, the depth of Mangion’s research into English experiences is a rallying cry for complementary works to be realised in other national contexts. An inspiration in its originality and rigour, and a pleasure to read, Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age is a major and progressive contribution to academic work on modern women religious.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"241 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44128392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BCH volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.29","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43935927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Irish Jesuit Annual Letters 1604–1674, ed. \u0000Vera Moynes, Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2019, pp. xxvii + 1013, €80, ISBN: 9781906865573","authors":"J. Morrill","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"228 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.22","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41813878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"James Kelly, English Convents in Catholic Europe, c. 1600−1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. viii + 226, £75, ISBN: 9781108479967","authors":"Laurence Lux‐Sterritt","doi":"10.1017/bch.2020.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.21","url":null,"abstract":"In this, the authors capture the turmoil as Elizabeth’s reign drew to a close without any official heir, when all parties saw the chance to publicly lobby for their position, not only Catholic but also Protestant. The questions at play touched on religious pluralism, relations between the state and religion, the authority of the monarch and from where it is drawn. On the Catholic side, it was not simply a question of survivalists versus new missionary zeal, but different visions of what the Catholic Reformation might look like in England. It became a tussle between episcopal authority, state power and papal jurisdiction. Inevitably, the cast of players and the discussion could be headspinning for those not at least a little familiar with the period. At the book’s start, the authors provide a very helpful list of the main players, as well as a timeline that puts the controversy against wider national matters, such as treaty negotiations. The authors cleverly cover a lot of different angles on the controversy, though it might have been worth considering how the fanatical appellant William Watson and his more extreme colleagues tapped into wider European antiJesuit polemic. There is also one unexplained element of the book: why do the authors refer to Robert Parsons, rather than Persons? The former spelling has generally been discarded, including by the Persons correspondence project. These, though, are minor quibbles. More important is that Lake and Questier convince with their thesis that the Archpriest Controversy offers a neglected window into the workings of the early modern public sphere. It is an attempt to recover what mattered to the protagonists, not just about the clerical matters at play or questions of the succession, but also wider ambitions and philosophies. Written in the authors’ typically punchy style, All Hail to the Archpriest should be required corrective reading for those who still believe the story of postReformation England can be told as if Catholics had disappeared from the scene, only to emerge whenever a handy scapegoat was required.","PeriodicalId":41292,"journal":{"name":"British Catholic History","volume":"35 1","pages":"225 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/bch.2020.21","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41824336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}