Introduction : English Catholics and discourses of the nation -- First wave : exile and Catholic identity, 1558--1570 -- Turks, northerners, and the barbarous heretic -- The lost British lamb : religion and national identity among English, Welsh, and Scottish Catholics -- English Catholics and Ireland -- Anglo-Spanish relations and the hispaniolized English Catholic
Summary
Examining the ways in which Catholic writers between the reigns of Mary Tudor and James I fashioned their own competing discourses of national and cultural identity, Highley considers a range of writing produced by a diverse Catholic community : religious polemic, ecclesiastical histories, martyrologies, and correspondence
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-225) and index