Luke Wadding, the Irish Franciscans, and Global Catholicism

ISBN-13: 9781032237978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 230 str.

Matteo Binasco

Opis

This volume explores the career and life of Luke Wadding, one of the most prominent Irishmen of the early-modern period. It assesses the many roles played by Wadding at the Papal Curia, and how he succeeded to build a network of influential and wealthy figures around him.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Father Luke Wadding — A Multifaced Irishman in a Global World  Part I: Wadding and the Iberian Peninsula  2. Irish Franciscans and the Santiago Province of Spain  3. "Learned, Attached and Reliable": Luke Wadding, Agent of the Spanish Monarchy  Part II: Wadding and the Roman Context  4. Discovering Migration in the Seventeenth Century: Propaganda Fide, the Holy Office and Foreigners  5. Not Only a "Hibernese" in the Urbs: Luke Wadding and His Entourage in Seventeenth-Century Rome  Part III: The Cultural World of Wadding  6. The Development of Libraries in the Seventeenth Century: Luke Wadding’s Library  7. Luke Wadding: A Life in and for Books  8. Luke Wadding and Scholars for the Arts in Seventeenth-Century Rome  9. The Wadding Circle and the History of Political Thought  Part IV: Wadding and Ireland  10. Wadding and the Irish Tombs in St. Pietro in Montorio  11. The Vita Waddingi and the Memory of Confederate and Cromwellian Ireland  12. Conclusion

O autorze

Matteo Binasco is an adjunct professor at the Università per gli Stranieri of Siena.