Pedro de Ribadeneyra's Ecclesiastical history of the schism of the Kingdom of England : : a Spanish Jesuit's history of the English Reformation / / edited and translated by Spencer J. Weinreich.

• Superior document: Jesuit Studies, Volume 8
• VerfasserIn: Ribadeneyra, Pedro de, 1526-1611,
• TeilnehmendeR: Weinreich, Spencer J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Spanish
• Series: Jesuit studies ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (865 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Translated from the Spanish.
• Other title: Historia ecclesiastica del scisma del reyno de Inglaterra.; Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; To Our Lord Prince Don Philip /; The Author, to the Pious Christian Reader /; The Argument of the Present History, and the Origins of the Lamentable Schism in England /; Of the Marriage of the Princess Doña Catherine to Arthur, Prince of England, and of the Marriage She Contracted after His Death with His Brother, Henry /; How King Henry VIII Married the Princess Doña Catherine, and of the Children Born to Them /; The Title of Defender of the Faith given King Henry by the Apostolic See, and the Reason for This /; Of the Dissimilar Habits of the Queen and the King /; Of the Cardinal of York’s Ambition, and of the Advice He Gave the King Concerning His Marriage /; Of the King’s Actions Concerning His Marriage to the Queen, and What the French Ambassador Proposed to Dissolve It /; Of the Other Means Wolsey Used to Achieve His End, and of His Journey to France /; Of Anne Boleyn, Her Disposition and Abilities /; What Thomas Boleyn and the Councilors Said to the King Concerning Anne Boleyn, and How He Responded /; What Wolsey Negotiated in France, and His Return to England /; Of the Other Actions the King Took, the Troubles of His Heart, and Those of Wolsey’s /; Of the Ambassadors the King Sent to the Pope, and of His Holiness’s Decision in the Matter of the Divorce /; What the Queen Wrote to the Pope, What His Holiness Decreed, and Certain Private Matters That Came to Pass in This Affair /; How the Matter of the Divorce Began to Be Legally Considered, and of the Appeal Lodged by the Queen /; What Rochester and Other Worthy Persons Said in the Queen’s Favor, and What Campeggio Answered Concerning the Sentence /; The King Pressures the Legate, the Pope Remands the Case to Himself, and Wolsey is Arrested /; Of the Other Methods the King Used to Give Color to His Wickedness, and of the Results /; Of the Threats the King Made against the Pope, and of the Death of Wolsey /; How the King Named Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury, of His Sinful Life, and of How He Deceived the Pope /; The Conference between the Kings of England and France, and What They Discussed /; The King’s First Attack on the Clergy of England /; How the King, against the Pope’s Mandate, Secretly Married Anne Boleyn /; Of Thomas Cromwell, and of the Heretics Who Flooded the King’s Court, and What They Proposed against the Churchmen /; What Parliament Decreed Concerning the Clergy, and the Judgment Cranmer Gave in the King’s Favor /; What Christendom Thought of the King’s Marriage, and Pope Clement’s Sentence against Him /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004323961
• ISSN: 2214-3289
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited and translated by Spencer J. Weinreich.

In 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich’s translation is the first English edition of the History , one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich’s introduction explores the text’s many dimensions—propaganda for the Spanish Armada, anti-Protestant polemic, Jesuit hagiography, consolation amid tribulation—and assesses Ribadeneyra as a historian. The extensive annotations anchor Ribadeneyra’s narrative in the historical record and reconstruct his sources, methods, and revisions. The History , long derided as mere propaganda, emerges as remarkable evidence of the centrality of historiography to the intellectual, theological, and political battles of early modern Europe.