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- Title
Calculating History: A Mid-Seventeenth-Century Reader of Robert Persons' A Conference about the Next Succession (1594/1595).
- Authors
Archibald, Christopher
- Abstract
This article examines one of the Bodleian Library's copies of Robert Persons' Elizabethan succession tract A Conference about the Next Succession that a 1650s reader has heavily annotated and used to compile a miscellany of poems and extracts from religious, political and historical works. The annotations and miscellany are concerned primarily with recent religious and political history. The reader compiles copies of popular ballads and poems, quotations from religious polemic by Catholic authors and a set of calculations of the dates of recent events in English Catholic history. This marked book serves as a case study through which to explore historical consciousness and the production of particularly Catholic forms of history and memory in the early modern period. This article seeks to query critical narratives concerning apparently combative seventeenth-century political reading practice by extending the remit of the 'political' to encompass different generic forms and approaches. It argues that by combining chronological and analogical perspectives this reader constructs a distinctively recusant history. An appendix identifies all of the works used by the annotator and all of the known editions or manuscripts they may have used.
- Subjects
BODLEIAN Library; CONFERENCE about the Next Succession, A (Book); PARSONS, Robert, 1546-1610; POLEMICS; APOLOGETICS; CATHOLIC authors
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2020, Vol 71, Issue 299, p272
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgz043