In 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich's translation is the first English edition of the 'History', one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich's introduction explores the text's many dimensions - propaganda for the Spanish Armada, anti-Protestant polemic, Jesuit hagiography, consolation amid tribulation - and assesses Ribadeneyra as a historian. The extensive annotations anchor Ribadeneyra's narrative in the historical record and reconstruct his sources, methods, and revisions. The 'History', long derided as mere propaganda, emerges as remarkable evidence of the centrality of historiography to the intellectual, theological, and political battles of early modern Europe

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Pedro de Ribadeneyra

Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands), Leiden, 2017

Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2017

Brill's Jesuit Studies, 2017

Netherlands, Netherlands

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Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England: A Spanish Jesuit’s History of the English Reformation
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Bibliographic Abbreviations
List of Textual Abbreviations
Notes on the Translation
Introduction
The Life and Times of Pedro de Ribadeneyra
From De origine ac progressu to the Historia
The Politics of History, the Politics of the Historia
The Spanish Armada
The Second Volume of the Historia
A Textual History of the Historia
The Historia and the Society of Jesus
“O ladies, no ladies at all”: Gender and Power in the Historia
A Modern Historian?
La cisma de Inglaterra and the Reception of the Historia
Assessing the Historia
The Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom
of England
To Our Lord Prince Don Philip
The Author, to the Pious Christian Reader
The Argument of the Present History, and the Origins of the Lamentable Schism in England
Book 1: Here Begins the History of the English Schism
1 Of the Marriage of the Princess Doña Catherine to Arthur, Prince of England, and of the Marriage She Contracted after His Death with His Brother, Henry
2 How King Henry VIII Married the Princess Doña Catherine, and of the Children Born to Them
3A The Title of Defender of the Faith given King Henry by the Apostolic See, and the Reason for This
3 Of the Dissimilar Habits of the Queen and the King
4 Of the Cardinal of York’s Ambition, and of the Advice He Gave the
King Concerning His Marriage
5 Of the King’s Actions Concerning His Marriage to the Queen, and
What the French Ambassador Proposed to Dissolve It
6 Of the Other Means Wolsey Used to Achieve His End, and of His
Journey to France
7 Of Anne Boleyn, Her Disposition and Abilities
8 What Thomas Boleyn and the Councilors Said to the King
Concerning Anne Boleyn, and How He Responded
9 What Wolsey Negotiated in France, and His Return to England
10 Of the Other Actions the King Took, the Troubles of His Heart,
and Those of Wolsey’s
11 Of the Ambassadors the King Sent to the Pope, and of His Holiness’s Decision in the Matter of the Divorce
12 What the Queen Wrote to the Pope, What His Holiness Decreed, and Certain Private Matters That Came to Pass in This Affair
13 How the Matter of the Divorce Began to Be Legally Considered,
and of the Appeal Lodged by the Queen
14 What Rochester and Other Worthy Persons Said in the Queen’s Favor, and What Campeggio Answered Concerning the Sentence
15 The King Pressures the Legate, the Pope Remands the Case to Himself, and Wolsey is Arrested
16 Of the Other Methods the King Used to Give Color to His Wickedness, and of the Results
17 Of the Threats the King Made against the Pope, and of the Death of Wolsey
18 How the King Named Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury, of His Sinful Life, and of How He Deceived the Pope
19 The Conference between the Kings of England and France, and What They Discussed
20 The King’s First Attack on the Clergy of England
21 How the King, against the Pope’s Mandate, Secretly Married Anne Boleyn
22 Of Thomas Cromwell, and of the Heretics Who Flooded the King’s Court, and What They Proposed against the Churchmen
23 What Parliament Decreed Concerning the Clergy, and the Judgment Cranmer Gave in the King’s Favor
24 What Christendom Thought of the King’s Marriage, and Pope
Clement’s Sentence against Him
25 What Henry Did When He Learned of the Pope’s Sentence
26 Of the Parliament Convened to Approve the King’s Marriage and to Destroy Religion
27 Of the Inhuman Persecution the King Initiated against All
Religious
28 Of the Illustrious Men Thomas More and John of Rochester,
and of the Latter’s Martyrdom
29 The Martyrdom of Thomas More
30A Other Details of the Life and Death of Thomas More
30 The Sentence of Pope Paul III against King Henry
31 Henry Despoils the Monasteries, and Impoverishes Himself with
Their Wealth
32 What the Queen Wrote to Her Confessor, Encouraging Him in the Face of Death, and How He Answered Her
33 The Death of Queen Doña Catherine and the Letter She Wrote to the King
34 The King Sentences Anne Boleyn to a Public Death, and the Reason for This
35 The King’s Marriage to Jane Seymour, the Sessions of Parliament, the Disturbances That Arose in the Realm, and the Birth of Edward
36 Cardinal Pole’s Arrival in Flanders, and the Results Thereof
37 The King’s Cruelty against the Franciscans, and the Death of Father Brother John Forest
38 Of Henry’s Sacrilege against the Tombs, Relics, and Images of the Saints, and the Pope’s Judgment against Him
39 The Assault on the Monasteries of England, and the Tyranny with Which it Was Done
40 The Death of Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury; The End of the Religious Orders in England; And the Beginnings of the Society of Jesus
41 Henry Marries Anne of Cleves, Exalts Cromwell, and Imposes New Burdens on His Kingdom
42 The King Tires of and Divorces His Wife, after Having Cromwell Put to Death
43 Of Catherine Howard, Henry’s Fifth Wife, and How, after Ordering Her Put to Death, He Married Katherine Parr
44 How Henry Declared Himself King of Ireland, and the Right the Kings of England Had to Call Themselves Its Lords
45 The Poverty Henry Found Himself in after Despoiling the Churches, and the Taxes He Imposed on His Kingdom
46 The King’s Cruelty, and How the Lord Punished His Ministers for
Their Sins
47 The King’s Last Illness and Death, and the Provisions of His Will
48 Of Henry’s Natural Gifts and Character
49 How God Punished King Henry through His Own Sins
Book 2: The Second Book of the Schism of England, Concerning King Edward, and the Queens Doña Mary and Elizabeth, His Sisters
1 How King Henry’s Testament was Disregarded, and How the Earl of Hertford became Protector of the Realm
2 The Means the Protector Employed to Pervert the Faith of the Boy King and that of the Kingdom
3 What Parliament Enacted against Our Sacred Religion
4 The Catholics’ Sentiments, and the Weakness They Showed
5 The Princess Doña Mary’s Constancy in the Catholic Faith, and the Methods the Heretics Employed to Separate Her from it
6 How the Regents Attempted to Uproot the Catholic Faith
7 The Things that Happened to Check the Heretics
8 How the Protector Killed His Brother, and How He was Overthrown and Slain by the Earl of Warwick
9 The Ambition of the Earl of Warwick, Who Named Himself Duke of Northumberland; The Death of King Edward and the Succession of Queen Mary
10 How the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk Proclaimed Jane
Queen of England, and What Befell Them
11 What Queen Mary Did on Taking Possession of the Kingdom
12 How the Pope, at the Queen’s Entreaty, Sent Cardinal Pole to England as His Legate
13 How the Queen Negotiated a Marriage with the Prince of Spain, and of the Disturbances This Provoked in the Kingdom, and How They Were Quelled
14 Of the Devilish Trick Utilized by the Heretics to Interfere with the
Queen’s Marriage to the Prince of Spain
15 How the Queen’s Marriage to King Don Philip Took Place, and with it the Reconciliation of the Realm with the Apostolic See
16 The Impediments to This Reconciliation, and How They Were Resolved
17 How the False Bishops were Punished, and Cranmer, Primate of
England, was Burned
18 How the Universities were Reformed, and Our Sacred Religion Flourished
19 The Death of Queen Mary
20 Of the Virtues of Queen Doña Mary
21 How Queen Elizabeth’s Reign Began, and How the King of France Considered Her Unfit to Rule
22 How the Queen Subsequently Revealed Herself as an Enemy of
Catholicism, and What She Did to Destroy it
23 The Parliament Convened by the Queen, and How She Made it Decide as She Desired
24 How the Queen Named Herself Supreme Governor of the Church, and of the Laws Enacted about This
25 The Persecution Initiated against the Catholics for Refusing to Recognize the Queen as Head of the Church
26 The Form the Queen Provided for Church Governance
27 The Means the Pope and Other Christian Monarchs Took to Recall the Queen, and the Sentence Pope Pius v Rendered against Her
28 What Ensued from the Bull’s Publication in England
29 The Establishment of the English Seminaries in Rheims and Rome, and Their Fruits
30 The Entry of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus into England
31 The Harsh Laws the Queen Enacted against the Fathers of the Society of Jesus and the Other Catholic Priests
32 Of the Life, Imprisonment, and Martyrdom of Father Edmund
Campion of the Society of Jesus
33 Of the Other Martyrs and Persecuted Catholics
34 How the Queen and Her Ministers Claimed that the Holy Martyrs Did Not Die for the Sake of Religion, but Rather for Other Crimes
35 The Means the Heretics Employed to Spin Out Their Lies and Make Them Seem Like Truth
36 Various Marvels that God has Worked for the Glory of the Martyrs of England
37 The Martyrologies and Calendars the Heretics Produced in England
38 The False Mercy the Queen Showed Certain Priests in Banishing Them from the Kingdom
39 The Methods the Queen Has Used to Unsettle Neighboring
Countries
40 The Imprisonment and Death of Queen Mary of Scotland
41 The Happiness That the English Heretics Preach Concerning Their Kingdom
The Conclusion to This Work
Book 3: The Third Book of the Schism of England, Recounting Various Martyrs and Other Things that have Occurred in that Realm Since the First Part of this History was Published
To Our Lord the Prince, Don Philip
To the Benign and Pious Reader
1 The Edict Passed against the Catholics by the Advice of the Earl of Leicester, and of His Death, and that of Several Servants of God
2 The Falls of Two Catholics, and What the Lord Worked through
Them
3 The Martyrdom in Oxford of Two Priests and Two Catholic
Laymen
4 Further Martyrs Who Died in London
5 The Death of Francis Walsingham, the Queen’s Secretary
6 Of the Crosses That Appeared in England
7 The Arrival in England of Several Priests from the English Seminary at Valladolid, and What Came of This
8 Of Three False Puritan Prophets Who Appeared in England
9 The Death of Christopher Hatton, Chancellor of the Realm
10 The Edict the Queen Proclaimed against Priests and Catholics, and Their Deaths
11 Of Several Prominent Women Who Lost Their Wealth, Honors, and Lives for the Catholic Faith
12 The Heretics Seize Four Young Brothers for Their Faith, and are Left Humiliated
13 How the English Heretics Accuse the Catholics of being Sorcerers
14 The Benefit the Catholics Have Derived from This Persecution
15 Why the Catholics of England Refuse to Attend the Heretics’ Synagogues or to Recognize the Queen as Head of Their Church
16A The Edict the Queen Promulgated against Our Sacred Religion, and against the Pope, and the Catholic King, Who Defend it
16B What is Contained in the Edict the Queen Promulgated against Our Sacred Religion
17 That This Edict is Sacrilegious and Blasphemous against God
18 The War in France, Which the Edict Calls Utterly Unjust
19 Of the English Seminaries that Have Been Established for the Benefit of the Kingdom of England
20 How the Heretics of England Criticize the Pope for the English Seminaries He Supports, While the New Christians of Japan Thank Him for Having Done the Same in Their Land
21 The Qualities Those Entering the Seminaries are to Have, and the Oath They Take, and the Things They Do While There
22 The Spirit and Manner in Which These Young Men Return to
England
23 How the Seminarians Return to England, and What They Do
There
24 The Edict’s Cruelty against the Seminarians and the Jesuits
25 How False it is that None Die in England for the Sake of Religion, as the Edict Claims
26 The Edict’s Proofs that None Die in England for Reasons of Religion
27 That this Edict is Oppressive and Intolerable to the Entire Kingdom of England
28 Why They Publish Such False and Damaging Edicts
29 What the Instigators of this Persecution Ought to Consider
30 What Ought to Inspire the Seminary Priests and the Other Catholics in this Conquest
31 A Continuation of the Preceding Chapter, and an Exposition of Three Particular Reasons that May Further Inspire the Martyrs
32 Why God Allows the English Catholics to be so Persecuted
To the Pious Reader
A Brief Account of the Martyrs Who Have Departed the English Colleges and Seminaries at Rome and Rheims in France, and Suffered in England in Defense of the Catholic Faith
Appendix I: The Exhortation to the Armada
Appendix II: Ribadeneyra’s Letter-Memorial on the Causes of the Armada’s Failure (Probably to Juan de Idiáquez y Olazábal)
Appendix III: Luis de Granada on the Historia
Appendix IV: John Cecil’s Letter to Joseph Cresswell, September 20, 1591
Appendix V: Juan López Manzano’s Breve Catalogo
Bibliography
Biblical Index
Index

2017-05-02