Recent Books
2024 [with Marianne Dircksen.] De Persecutione Anglicana, by Robert Persons S.J. (1581/2). Critical edition, translation and commentary. London: Bloomsbury.
2024 [with Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, Javier Burrieza Sanchez and Ginevra Crosignani]. The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, SJ: Vol. 2:1588–1597. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
2017 [with Ginevra Crosignani and Thomas M. McCoog, SJ]. The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, SJ: Vol. 1:1574–1588. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Recent articles and book chapters
2022 ‘Recusant Literary Culture in England and Wales.’ In A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland: From Reformation to Emancipation. Ed. Robert E. Scully, with Angela Ellis. Brill`s Companions to the Christian Tradition 101. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 507–34.
2021 ‘Paul’s Cross and the State Church: The Case of John Donne and the Jesuits.’ In Old St Paul’s and Culture. Ed. Shanyn Altman and Jonathan Buckner. Early Modern Literature in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 147–72.
2020 [with Aislinn Muller] ‘The Elizabethan Martyrs.’ In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom. Ed. Paul Middleton. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Pp. 322–37.
2020 ‘Rehabilitating Robert Persons: Then and Now.’ In Reformation Reputations. Ed. David Crankshaw and George Gross. London: Palgrave. Pp. 421–47.
Selected earlier publications
2007 Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England: Robert Persons’s Jesuit Polemic, 1580–1610. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Aldershot / Rome: Ashgate / Jesuit Historical Institute.
1998 The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution, by Robert Persons (1582). A critical edition, with introduction and commentary. Studies in the History of Christian Thought. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
1988 The Silkewormes and their Flies, by Thomas Moffet (1599). A critical edition, with introduction, commentary and glossary. Renaissance English Text Society. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.
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2016 ‘Persons’ Displeasure: Collaboration and Design in Leicester’s Commonwealth.’ In Publishing Subversive Texts in Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.Ed. Teresa Bela, Clarinda Calma and Jolanta Rzegocka.Leiden: Brill, 2016.Pp. 155–66.
2016 [with Thomas M. McCoog, SJ] ‘Life in Tudor Limerick: William Good’s “Annual Letter” of 1566.’ Archivium Hibernicum: Irish Historical Records 69: 7–36.
2013 ‘The Violence of the Knowledge of God: John Donne and the Ordinance of Preaching.’ Religion and Literature 45.1: 33–54.
2013 [with Sonia Fanucchi] ‘Conversations among the Living and the Dead: Counterpoint in Action in the English Curriculum.’ English Academy Review 30.1: 92–106.
2009 ‘The Merchant of Venice in the City of Gold: The Tercentenary in Johannesburg.’ The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 9. Special Section: South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century, ed. Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop and Laurence Wright (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 46–65.
2009 ‘Medieval Studies and the Voice of Conscience in Twentieth-Century South Africa.’ In Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of ‘the Middle Ages’ Outside Europe. Ed. Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 348–68.
2006 ‘An Apologia for John Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr.’ Review of English Studies 57: 474–86.
1996 ‘Why Robert Persons would not be Pacified: Edmund Bunny’s Theft of The Book of Resolution.’ In The Reckoned Expense, ed. Thomas McCoog, S.J. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. Pp. 159–78.
1993 ‘Breuis dialogismus: An anonymous Becket play from the Jesuit Seminary at St Omer.’ English Literary Renaissance 23: 382–427.
1993 ‘St Thomas Becket in the Propaganda of the English Counter-Reformation.’ Renaissance Studies 7: 44–70.
1989 ‘Sleepers Awake: Thomas Moffet’s Challenge to the College of Physicians of London, 1584.’ Medical History 33: 235–46.