Gerard Kilroy here draws on newly discovered manuscript sources to reveal Campion as a charismatic and affectionate scholar who was finding fulfilment as priest and teacher in Prague when he was summoned to lead the first Jesuit mission to England. The book offers fresh insights into the dramatic search for Campion, the populist nature of the disputations in the Tower, and the legal issues raised by his torture. It was the monarchical republic itself that made him the beloved 'champion' of the English Catholic community. Edmund Campion presents the most detailed and comprehensive picture to date of an historical figure whose loyalty and courage, in the trial and on the scaffold, swiftly became legendary across Europe.
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Contents: Preface: A spectacle to all the realme; Among the ruins; Pilgrim to Rome; Et in Arcadia ego; All this travail; An immense harvest; Captive good; On the rack; Upon the publike stage; The lawes of England; We are made a spectacle; The legacy; Bibliography; Index.
