Alexandra Walsham, professor of modern history at Cambridge University, presents at the "The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground" conference at The Huntington.
Earle Havens, associate professor of Johns Hopkins University, presents at the "The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground" conference at The Huntington.
Mark Rankin, Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, presents at the "The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground" conference at The Huntington.
Steve Hindle, the W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington, gives opening remarks for "The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground" conference.
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About The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground
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This interdisciplinary conference explored the subterranean world of Elizabethan Catholic print and scribal culture, set against the backdrop of press censorship, illicit printing, book smuggling,…
subversive scribal publication, and the uses of Catholic writing by government agents. The study of book circulation illuminated the nature and significance of the persecuted religious minority that was, by the end of the 16th century, no longer supposed to exist.