Liesbeth Corens, Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe

Abstract

Over the last twenty years, there has been a surge in research exploring early modern English and Irish Catholicism in exile on the Continent. Complementing the seminal in-depth studies of Catholicism at home, produced by John Bossy or, more recently, by Michael Questier, the pioneering works of scholars such as Claire Walker or Caroline Bowden opened up new avenues in the study of exiled English and Irish nuns, a field which remained nearly unexplored till then. The Who Were the Nuns? projec...