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a serious contribution to the debate on Catholicism in early modern Britain. Peter Davidson, Times Literary Supplement, ...a carefully measured and well reasoned work of unremitting scholarship Oliver Rafferty SJ, Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits ...captivating book...provides a fascinating insight into how English Catholics 'wrote the nation' at home and, above all, abroad..., the particular strength of this monograph lies in its excellent passages of political contextualisation. Laurence Lux-Sterritt, The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland

a serious contribution to the debate on Catholicism in early modern Britain. * Peter Davidson, Times Literary Supplement, * ...a carefully measured and well reasoned work of unremitting scholarship * Oliver Rafferty SJ, Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits * ...captivating book...provides a fascinating insight into how English Catholics 'wrote the nation' at home and, above all, abroad..., the particular strength of this monograph lies in its excellent passages of political contextualisation. * Laurence Lux-Sterritt, The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland * there is no doubt that Catholics Writing the Nation is an important contribution to the study of both Catholicism and the development of national identity in early modern England * The Innes Review * Highley is exemplary in giving platform time to all nationalities, discriminating among them as acutely as they did themselves * Alison Shell, Review of English Studies * ... this is a well-written and appealing book ... this study sheds important light on the differing ways in which exiles negotiated and reconciled being both English and Catholic. * Katharine K. Olson, Sixteenth Century Journal *

a serious contribution to the debate on Catholicism in early modern Britain. Peter Davidson, Times Literary Supplement, ...a carefully measured and well reasoned work of unremitting scholarship Oliver Rafferty SJ, Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits ...captivating book...provides a fascinating insight into how English Catholics 'wrote the nation' at home and, above all, abroad..., the particular strength of this monograph lies in its excellent passages of political contextualisation. Laurence Lux-Sterritt, The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland there is no doubt that Catholics Writing the Nation is an important contribution to the study of both Catholicism and the development of national identity in early modern England The Innes Review

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Christopher Highley received his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University in 1990 and has taught since then at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge, 1997) and the co-editor of two collections of essays: John Foxe and his World (Ashgate, 2002) and Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).

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