Religious Exiles in Early Modern Europe

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Facing persecution in Elizabethan England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for their own rulers to have a change of heart. These so-called “Spanish Elizabethans,” used the most powerful tools at their disposal — paper, pens, and printing presses — to incite war against England, from the years leading up to the Grand Armada until Philip II of Spain's death in 1598.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez whose groundbreaking research is making an important contribution to the study of religious exile in early modern Europe.

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0:00.0	As the Elizabethan settlement created the Church of England as some sort of halfway house
0:08.0	between proscentism and Catholicism, some English Catholics felt forced to leave England.
0:16.0	In exile, they plotted to save England from the blight of heresy and the evils of the
0:22.1	Elizabethan regime by using foreign pressure to remove the Queen and reestablish Catholicism.
0:30.0	How did they do it?
0:31.8	They weaponised books.
0:34.8	English Catholics writing during the dramatic years of the 1580s and 1590s urged Philip
0:40.5	II of Spain to invade England and even to consider murdering Elizabeth I.
0:47.6	They rewrote history to argue that incest was at the root of the Church of England and
0:53.9	they called for a holy war.
0:57.7	This is a sorted story about a group of men and women clawing at what tools they had
1:02.9	to promote warfare and political sabotage.
1:07.3	To tell the tale, I'm joined by Professor Freddie Krista Baldermingers.
1:12.6	He is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas and he's the author
1:17.1	of Radicals in Exile, English Catholic Books during the reign of Philip II which was published
1:24.2	by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2020.
1:33.6	Professor Dominguez, thank you so much for joining me on not just the tutors and really
1:38.3	interested to talk to you about your work.
1:41.6	We often hear about English Protestant exiles in Mary the First reign and we hear much
1:48.6	less so about English Catholic ones under Elizabeth I.
1:53.0	Why do you think that is?
1:55.9	Well I think part of it is that England over time became dominantly Protestant and
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