Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to Evelyn Waugha s call, in 1935, for a a scholarly biographya to replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit priest, this new biography presents a more balanced assessment, placing equal weight on Campiona s London upbringing among printers and preachers, and on his growing stature as an orator in an Oxford riven with religious divisions. Ireland, chosen by Campion as a haven from religious conflict, is shown, paradoxically, to have determined his...
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to Evelyn Waugha s call, in 1935, for a a scholarly biographya to replace Richard Simp...
