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Book SynopsisThis book explores the endeavors and activities of one of the most prominent early modern Irishmen in exile, the Franciscan Luke Wadding. Born in Ireland, educated in the Iberian Peninsula, Wadding arrived in Rome in 1618, where he would die in 1657. In the Eternal City, the Franciscan emerged as an outstanding theologian, a learned scholar, a diplomat, and a college founder. This innovative collection of chapters brings together a group of international scholars who provide a ground-breaking analysis of the many cultural, political, and religious facets of Wadding’s life. They illustrate the challenges and changes faced by an Irishman who emerged as one of the most outstanding global figures of the Catholic Reformation. The volume will attract scholars of the early modern period, early modern Catholicism, and Irish emigration.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Father Luke Wadding — A Multifaced Irishman in a Global World Part I: Wadding and the Iberian Peninsula 2. Irish Franciscans and the Santiago Province of Spain 3. "Learned, Attached and Reliable": Luke Wadding, Agent of the Spanish Monarchy Part II: Wadding and the Roman Context 4. Discovering Migration in the Seventeenth Century: Propaganda Fide, the Holy Office and Foreigners 5. Not Only a "Hibernese" in the Urbs: Luke Wadding and His Entourage in Seventeenth-Century Rome Part III: The Cultural World of Wadding 6. The Development of Libraries in the Seventeenth Century: Luke Wadding’s Library 7. Luke Wadding: A Life in and for Books 8. Luke Wadding and Scholars for the Arts in Seventeenth-Century Rome 9. The Wadding Circle and the History of Political Thought Part IV: Wadding and Ireland 10. Wadding and the Irish Tombs in St. Pietro in Montorio 11. The Vita Waddingi and the Memory of Confederate and Cromwellian Ireland 12. Conclusion
