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England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, J. E. (2020). England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back. Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 7(2), 271-285. https://doi.org/10.1515/jemc-2020-2022

Although the Protestant Reformation has traditionally been the focus of research on early modern England, the last two decades have witnessed a rapid increase in scholarship on the experience of the country’s Catholics. Questions surrounding the impl... Read More about England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back.

Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, J. E. (2020). Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 72(2), 300-322. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046920000019

Augustine Baker, the seventeenth-century Benedictine monk, is primarily remembered as an advocate of mystical spiritual contemplation. This reputation was shaped by a contemporary supporter, whose synopsis of Baker’s works is the source most commonly... Read More about Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England.

The Contested Appropriation of George Gervase's Martyrdom: European Religious Patronage and the Controversy Over the Oath of Allegiance (2018)
Journal Article
Kelly, J. E. (2018). The Contested Appropriation of George Gervase's Martyrdom: European Religious Patronage and the Controversy Over the Oath of Allegiance. Journal of British Studies, 57(2), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.235

From the beginning of the seventeenth century, Englishmen professed as Benedictine monks in mainland Europe began returning to their homeland. Until that point, the Catholic mission to England had been run by secular clergy and Jesuits, relationships... Read More about The Contested Appropriation of George Gervase's Martyrdom: European Religious Patronage and the Controversy Over the Oath of Allegiance.

Counties without Borders? Religious Politics, Kinship Networks and the Formation of Catholic Communities (2017)
Journal Article
Kelly, J. E. (2018). Counties without Borders? Religious Politics, Kinship Networks and the Formation of Catholic Communities. Historical Research, 91(251), 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12209

This article examines the formation of Catholic communities and the roles played by religious politics and kinship networks within that process. It contributes to historiographical debates about early modern English Catholics' self-identification in... Read More about Counties without Borders? Religious Politics, Kinship Networks and the Formation of Catholic Communities.