BRITISH CATHOLICISM IN THE EUROPEAN IMAGINATION

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

11 JANUARY 2020

Catholicism in the British Isles was an international enterprise. With seminaries,

convents and printing-presses abroad, expatriate communities, and its natural

dependence on the papacy, international patronage – and therefore

international perceptions – mattered. British Catholics spent considerable time,

effort and ink on portrayals of themselves and their nation for European

audiences. The many and varied forms these portrayals took crossed genres as

well as borders.

This conference explores these projects and their impact. It brings

together scholarship on British Catholics' relations with those they lived among as expatriates,

the reach of their writings, art, drama, music, and politics in European

cultures, and how they were perceived by European writers

and audiences.

Please see programme here

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