Description: "De Persecutione Anglicana has been described as the most famous martyrological work by an English Catholic during the Reformation period and is presented here for the first time in an accessible authoritative edition. Robert Persons (1546-1610) was a Jesuit activist, controversialist, missionary strategist and educationist whose importance has become increasingly appreciated over the past decades thanks to the rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies. His prolific work is well known and widely studied but his Latin writing is neglected as inaccessible to many scholars"--
Brief description: Victor Houliston is Research Professor at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and the lead editor of the Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons (Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies).
Review Quotes: "This edition represents a landmark in the recovery for serious consideration of a key work by an author who was arguably the most widely ready English writer of his day in geographical terms." --Simon Ditchfield, Professor of Early Modern History, University of York, UK