Bibliographic Resources for
Inquisitions and Persecutions
in Early Modern Cultures

This bibliography was developed in the course of planning the institute. It is intended merely as a resource. You may consult it as you see fit. The Daily Schedule contains specific selections and assignments. Please note: All required readings for the institute will be in English.

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  • El Abencerraje. 1565.
  • Alarcon, Hernando Ruiz de. Tratado de las supersticiones y costumbres gentílicas que oy viven entre los indios naturales desta Nueva España, escrito en Mééxico en el añño de 1629. Trans/Ed. J. Richard Andrews. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.
  • Alfied, Thomas. A True Reporte of the Death & Martyrdome of M. Campion Jesuite and Preiste. [1582].
  • Alford, Stephen. The Early Elizabethan Polity: William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558-1569. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 189-208 (on the Northern Rebellion).
  • Alvarez, Lourdes Maria. “Anselm Turmeda: The Visionary Humanism of a Muslim Convert and Catalan Prophet.” In Meeting the Foreign/er in the Middle Ages: Xenological Approaches in Medieval Pheonomena. New Jersey: Routledge, 2002. Chapter 9.
  • Archivo General de Indias. Further English Voyages to Spanish America. Ed. and trans. Irene A. Wright. London: Hakluyt Society, 1951.
  • Archivo General de la Nación. Corsarios Franceses e Ingleses en la Inquisición de la Nueva España. Siglo XVI. Introducción de Julio Jiménez Rueda. México. D. F.: Imprenta Universitaria. 1945.
  • Archivo General y Publico de la Nación. Proceso Inquisitorial del Cacique de Tetzcoco. 1539. Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico). Publicaciones; 1. México: E. Gómez de la Puente, 1910.
  • Aston, Margaret and Elizabeth Ingram. “The Iconography of the Acts and Monuments.” In David Loades, ed., John Foxe and the English Reformation. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997. 66-142.
  • Avale, Lemeke, compiler. A Commemoration or Dirige of Bastarde Edmonde Boner, alias Savage, usurped Bishoppe of London. 1569. STC 977.
  • Baedae Opera historica. Trans. Thomas Stapleton. London, 1565.
    Balboa Troya y Quesada, Silvestre de. Espejo de paciencia. Ed. Angel Aparicio Laurencio. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1970.
  • Battenhouse, Roy. "The Ghost in Hamlet: A Catholic 'Linchpin'?" Studies in Philology 68 (1951): 161-92.
  • Bishop, George. New England judged, not by man's, but the spirit of the Lord: and the summe sealed up of New-England's persecutions being a brief relation of the sufferings of the people called Quakers in those parts of America from the beginning of the fifth moneth 1656 (the time of their first arrival at Boston from England) to the later end of the tenth moneth, 1660 ... London: Printed for Robert Wilson, 1661.
  • Bowers, Rogers. “The Chapel Royal, the First Edwardian Prayer Book, and the Settlement of Religion, 1559.” The Historical Journal 43, no. 2 (2000): 317-344.
  • Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. Salem-village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1972.
  • -----. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
  • Breen, Louise A. Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • Bunny, Edmund. Directory of Christian Exercises. 1585. Selections.
  • Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. 1688. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Campion, Edmund. Ten Reasons. In A Jesuit Challenge: Edmund Campion's Debates at the Tower of London in 1581. Ed. John Hungerford Pollen and Joseph Rickaby. London: Manresa Press, 1914.
  • Carey, Vincent P. Atrocity, Poetry, and History: Grey, Spenser, and the Massacre at Smerwick (1580). Forthcoming.
  • -----. “John Derricke’s Image of Irelande, Sir Henry Sidney, and the Massacre at Mullaghmast, 1578.” Irish Historical Studies 31 (1999): 305-27.
  • Carroll, Clare. Circe’s Cup: Cultural Transformation in Early Modern Writing about Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2002.
  • Casas, Bartolomé de las. In Defense of the Indians. Ca. 1550.
  • -----. The Only Way.
  • Castellanos, Juan de. Elegias de Varones Ilustres de Indias [Elegies of the Illustrious Men of the Indies]. (1589) Caracas: Academia Nacional de la Historia, 1987.
  • -----. The Narrative of the Expedition of Sir Francis Drake to the Indies and the Taking by Him of Carthagena, trans. Walter Owen. Buenos Aires: s.n., 1952.
  • -----. Juan De Castellanos and Lope De Aguirre. An Annotated Text of an Episode from Castellanos' Elegias. Ed. Robert James Meador. Charlottesville: University of Virginia dissertation, 1951.
  • Cecil, William, Lord Burghley. The Execution of Iustice in England for the Maintenaunce of Publique and Christian Peace. . . , 1583.
  • Certeau, Michel de. Heterologies: Discourse on the Other. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
  • Cervantes, Fernando. The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quijote. New York: Norton, 1999.
  • Cobbet, John. The civil magistrates power in matters of religion modestly debated, impartially stated according to the bounds and grounds of Scripture: and answer returned to those objections against the same which seem to have any weight in them, together with A brief answer to a certain slanderous pamphlet called Ill news from New-England; or A narrative of New-Englands persecution, by John Clark ... New York: Arno Press, 1975. Reprint of the 1653 ed. printed by W. Wilson for Stephens, London.
  • Columbus, Christopher. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America, 1492-1493.
  • Damrosch, Leopold. The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
  • Derricke, John. The Image of Ireland (1581).
  • Dillon, Anne. The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535-1603. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Selections.
  • Dolan, Frances. Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
  • -----. “Reading, Work, and Catholic Women’s Biographies.” English Literary Renaissance, forthcoming.
  • Douay Old Testament. 1610.
  • Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400-c.1580. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Eimerac, Nicolau and Francisco Peña. Directorium inquisitorum. [Buenos Aires]: Rodolfo Alonso, [197-?].
  • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
  • Foxe, John. Actes and Monuments. 1563 edition, 1570 edition, and 1806 composite edition. Selections.
  • Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
  • -----. Notes from the Caroline Underground: Alexander Leighton, the Puritan Triumvirate, and the Laudian Reaction to Nonconformity. Hamden, Conn.: Published for the Conference on British Studies and Wittenberg University by Archon Books, 1978.
  • Freeman, Thomas. “New Perspectives on an Old Book: The Creation and Influence of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49 (1998): 317-28.
  • -----. “Texts, Lies, and Microfilm: Reading and Misreading Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs.” Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999): 23-46.
  • -----. “Fate, Faction, and Fiction in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.” The Historical Journal 43 (2000): 601-23.
  • Fuchs, Barbara. Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Gerassi-Navaro, Nina. Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
  • Godbeer, Richard. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • The Grand Impostor Examined, Or, the Life, Tryal and Examination of James Nayler the Seduced and Seducing Quaker: with the Manner of His Riding into Bristol. London: Printed for Henry Brome, 1656.
  • Gregory, Brad. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  • Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, chapter 5.
  • Griffiths, Nicholas. The Cross and the Serpent: Religious Repression and Resurgence in Colonial Peru. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
  • Gruzinski, Serge. Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019). Trans. Heather Maclean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
  • -----. Painting the Conquest: the Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance. Trans. Deke Dusinberre. Paris: Flammarion, 1992.
  • Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1991.
  • Haigh, Christopher. “The Recent Historiography of the English Reformation.” In Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. Ed. Margo Todd. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. 13-32.
  • -----. “Legislation and Visitation, 1558-1569." In English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 235-50.
  • Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: an Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.
  • Haring, Clarence Henry. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1966.
  • -----. The Spanish Empire in America. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947.
  • Hartley, T.E. Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I. 3 vols. Wilmington, Del.: M. Glazier, 1981.
  • Harvey, L.P. Islamic Spain: 1250-1500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Highley, Christopher. "The Lost British Lamb: English Catholic Exiles and the Problem of Britain.” In British Identities and English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Willy Maley and David Baker. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
  • Hoak, Dale. "From the 'Monarchical Republic' of Edward VI to the Coronation of Elizabeth I: An Evangelical Conspiracy?" Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, 27 October 2001.
  • Hortop, John. The Travailes of an Englishman. London, 1591.
  • Hudson, Anne, ed. Selections from English Wycliffe Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
  • Hughes, Paul L. and James F. Larkin. Tudor Royal Proclamations. 3 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964-9.
  • Houliston, Victor. "Why Robert Persons Would Not Be Pacified in Edmund Bunny's Theft of The Book of Resolution." In Thomas McCoog, The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1996. 159-78.
  • Hulme, Peter. Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797. New York: Methuen, 1986.
  • Jones, Norman. The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
  • -----. “Elizabeth’s First Year: The Conception and Birth of the Elizabethan Political World.” In Christopher Haigh, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Houndsmill: Macmillan Education, 1984. 27-53.
  • -----. Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion 1559. London: Royal Historical Society, 1982.
  • Kamerick, Kathleen. Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
  • Kerman, Joseph. Write All These Down: Essays on Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • -----. "William Byrd and Elizabethan Catholicism." In Write All These Down: Essays on Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 77-89.
  • -----. "'Write All These Down': Notes on a Song by Byrd." In Write All These Down: Essays on Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 106-124.
  • King, John. N. Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Kingdon, Robert M., ed. The Execution of Justice in England by William Cecil and A True, Sincere, and Modest Defense of English Catholics by William Allen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1965.
  • Knott, John R. Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature, 1563-1694. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 84-116.
  • Lake, Peter. “Anti-Popery: The Structure of a Prejudice,” in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics, 1603-1642. Ed. Richard Cust and Ann Hughes. London: Longman, 1989. pp. 72-106
  • -----. “Religious Identities in Shakespeare’s England.” In A Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 57-84.
  • Lake, Peter, and Michael Questier. “Puritans, Papists, and the ‘Public Sphere’ in Early Modern England: The Edmund Campion Affair in Context.” Journal of Modern History 72 (September 2000): 587-627.
  • -----. “Agency, Appropriation, and Rhetoric under the Gallows: Puritans, Romanists, and the State in Early Modern England.” Past and Present 53 (1996): 64-108.
  • Landa, Diego de. History of the Things of Yucatan. Trans., ed. Alfred M. Tozzer. 1941. New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1966.
  • Lennon, Colm. Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
  • Luborsky, Ruth Samson. “The Illustrations: Their Pattern and Plan.” In John Foxe: An Historical Perspective. Ed. David Loades. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. 67-84.
  • Marcus, Leah, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 2000.
  • Marotti, Arthur. “Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England: Recusant Women, Jesuits, and Ideological Fantasies.” In Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. Ed. Marotti. Houndmills, Basingtoke: Macmillan, 1999. 1-34.
  • Martin, Gregory. A Treatise of Schism. 1578. Selections.
  • Meyerson, Mark D. and Edward D. English, eds. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interaction and Cultural Change. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
  • Milsom, John. “Sacred Songs in the Chamber,” in English Choral Practice, 1400-1650, ed. John Morehen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Monson, Craig. "Byrd, Catholics, and the Motet: The Hearing Reopened.” In Hearing the Motet. Ed. Dolores Pesce. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 348-74
  • Munday, Anthony. The Banquet of Daintie Conceits. 1588. Selections.
  • -----. “Discovery of Campion.” In Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Wales. 1582.
  • -----. The true reporte of the prosperous successe which God gave unto our English souldiours against the forraine bands of our Romanie ememies, lately arived...in Ireland (1580)
  • Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Norton, John. The heart of New-England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation. Or A brief tractate, concerning the doctrine of the Quakers, demonstrating the destructive nature thereof, to religion, the churches, and the state; with consideration of the remedy against it. Occasional satisfaction to objections, and confirmation of the contrary truth. London, Printed by J. H. for John Allen, 1660.
  • Parris, Samuel. The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694, ed. James F. Cooper, Jr., Kenneth P. Minkema. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1993.
  • Pérez de Hita, Ginés. Guerras civiles de Granada. 1608.
  • Pestana, Carla Gardina. “Martyred by Saints: Quaker Executions.” In Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, ed. Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff. Routledge, 2003. 169-91.
  • -----. “The Quaker Executions as Myth and History.” Journal of American History 1993 80(2): 441-469.
  • Petti, Anthony G., ed. Letters and Dispatches of Richard Verstegan, C.R.S. 52. London, Catholic Record Society, 1959. (for Verstegan's letters on the torture of Southwell by Topcliffe)
  • Persons, Robert. Directory of Christian Exercises. 1584. Selections.
    -----. Reasons of Refusall. 1580. Selections.
  • Philips, Miles. “The Narrative of Miles Philips.” In Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries; the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, ed. Jack Beeching. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1972.
  • Pollen, John Hungerford, and Rickaby, Joseph, ed. Ten reasons: proposed to his adversaries for disputation in the name of the faith and presented to the illustrious members of our universities by Edmund Campion.
  • Rowlands, Marie B. “Recusant Women, 1560-1640.” In Women in English Society, 1500-1800. Ed. Mary Prior. London: Methuen, 1985. 149-80.
  • Sahagun, Bernadino de. General History of the Things of New Spain: Florentine Codex. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1982.
  • Salomon, Frank, trans. Huarochiri Manuscript: a Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
  • Sander, Nicholas. “Dr. Nicholas Sander’s Report to Cardinal Moroni.” A.J. Pollen, ed. Catholic Record Society Miscellanea I.1905. 1-46.
  • Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, ed. Harold Jenkins. Arden Edition of the Works of Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1982.
  • Shell, Alison. Catholicism, Controversy, and the English Imagination, 1558-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • Shuger, Debora Kuller. Political Theologies in Shakespeare’s England. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Siguenza y Gongora, Carlos de. Infortunios Que Alonso Ramírez, Natural De La Ciudad De San Juan De Puerto Rico, ed. J.S. Cummins and Alan Soons. London: Tamesis Texts, 1984.
  • Simpson, Richard. Edmund Campion: A Biography. 1866. London: J. Hodges, 1896. Selections.
  • Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
  • Southwell, Robert. The Poems of Robert Southwell, S.J. Ed. James H. McDonald and Nancy Pollard Brown. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
  • Spenser, Edmund. A View of the Present State of Ireland. Selections.
  • Stachniewski, John. The Persecutory Imagination: English Puritanism and the Literature of Religious Despair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
  • Stanbury, Sarah. “The Vivacity of Images.” In Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England. Ed. Jeremy Dimmick et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Tait, Clodagh. “Adored for Saints: Catholic Martyrdom in Ireland.” Journal of Early Modern History (2002): 128-159.
  • -----. “Colonising Memory: Maniplations of Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Career of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork (1566-1643).” In Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C [Ireland] 2001
  • Thompson, Robert. “The Narrative of Robert Thompson.” In Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries; the Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Ed. Jack Beeching. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1972
  • Verstegan, Richard. A Declaration of the true Causes of the Great Troubles, Presupposed to be Intended against the Realme of England. (Antwerp 1592). English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640, Vol. 166 Menston, Yorkshire, England: Scolar Press, 1973. 7-37.
  • -----. Théâtre des Cruautés des Hérétiques de Notre Temps. 1587. Ed. Frank Lestringant. Paris: Chandeigne, 1995.
  • Walsham, Alexandra. Church Papists: Catholicism, Conformity, and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Williams, Roger. The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, Discussed, in a Conference Betweene Truth and Peace. [London: s.n.], 1644.
  • Wormald, Jenny. Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost. London, New York: I.B. Tauris and Co., Ltd., 2001.
  • Selected pamphlets, ballads, treatises, poems and Homily on Obedience related to Northern Rebellion

 

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