St. Edmund Campion and the Jesuit English Mission of 1580 | Prof. Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 21, 2022, at the University of Edinburgh. For more information, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning earned her PhD from University of Edinburgh in 2013. Her dissertation was titled "Beyond Tragedy: Genre and the Idea of the Tragic in Shakespearean Tragedy, History and Comedy.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.7	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:21.5	Thomisticinstitute.org.
0:27.4	The quotation from the first part of my talk title is a translation, taken from one of the Latin
0:35.4	plays that Campion wrote while he was professor of rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Prague.
0:41.3	The play is called Ambrosia. Based on the life of St Ambrose, it was written for performance by the students at the college.
0:49.3	This is Campion's only play that survives in full, though we do know that he wrote at least two more full-length plays, and we possess bits and pieces of his other dramatic writing.
1:00.0	Playwriting may not be the first thing you associate with the name of Edmund Campion, probably one of the most famous of the Elizabethan Catholic martyrs.
1:09.0	But tonight I want to discuss some of his writings,
1:12.6	including some which to date haven't received very much popular or scholarly attention.
1:17.6	I'm going to explore how Campion's background as a literary scholar and Jesuit playwright
1:23.6	influenced the way in which he conducted himself on the heroic English mission and his path to martyrdom.
1:31.1	I'm going to speak for about 40 minutes and my talk is made up of three parts.
1:36.3	In the first part, I want to explore aspects of the Jesuit and Counter-Reformation context by which Campion was influenced during his time on the continent.
1:46.0	And here I'm going to focus on the role of Jesuit drama and the visual arts.
1:50.0	In the second part, I'll go on to discuss some of Campion's own writings.
1:55.0	And finally, in the third part, I'll explore the role that literature, art, and music played
2:00.0	in immemorializing Campion after his death,
2:03.8	making him a tremendously influential figure hundreds of years before he was finally beatified in 1886.
2:12.1	So this is part one, the Society of Jesus, the Counter-Reformation and the Arts.
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