Publishing Subversive Texts in Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

316 Pages·2016·4.497 MB·English

by  Teresa Bela, Clarinda Calma, Jolanta Rzegocka

Publishing Subversive Texts in Elizabethan England and
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Library of the Written Word
VOLUME 52
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Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews)
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Ann Blair (Harvard University)
Falk Eisermann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preuβischer Kulturbesitz)
Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)
Angela Nuovo (University of Udine)
Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool)
Malcolm Walsby (University of Rennes ii)
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Publishing Subversive Texts in
Elizabethan England and the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Edited by
Teresa Bela
Clarinda Calma
Jolanta Rzegocka
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Cover illustration: [Richard Verstegan], Descriptiones quaedam illius inhumanae et multiplicis persecutionis,
quam in Anglia propter fidem sustinent Catholice Christiani. Francisco Zanetti: Romae, 1584. Photo courtesy
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Contents
Preface vii
List of Tables and Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xi
1 By Way of Introduction: National Bibliography and Collective
Catalogues of Printed Material Produced in the First Centuries of
Print in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
part 1
English Recusant Presence in the Print Culture of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
2 Recusant Prose in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the
Turn of the Sixteenth Century 11
Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee
3 James vi and i, the Scottish Jesuit, and the Polish Pasquils 28
Martin Murphy
4 English Recusants in the Jesuit Theatre of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth 41
Jolanta Rzegocka
5 In the Eye of the Storm: Books in the Conflict between the Jesuits and
the University of Kraków (1622–1634) 56
Magdalena Komorowska
6 Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł (1549–1616): Prince,
Patron and Printer 72
Clarinda Calma
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Part 2
Subversive Publishing during the Elizabethan Settlement
7 “Guiding Souls to Goodness and Devotion”: Clandestine Publications
and the English Jesuit Mission 93
Thomas M. McCoog, SJ
8 “Books Which are Necessary for Them”: Reconstructing a Jesuit
Missionary Library in Wales and the English Borderlands,
ca. 1600–1679 110
Hannah Thomas
9 Luis De Granada’s Mission to Protestant England: Translating the
Devotional Literature of the Spanish Counter-Reformation 129
Alexandra Walsham
10 Persons’ Displeasure: Collaboration and Design in Leicester’s
Commonwealth 155
Victor Houliston
11 Goslicius’ Englished Senator: An Anatomy of Manipulative
Translation 167
Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa
part 3
Crossing National Borders of Censorship
12 A Cosmopolitan Book: Edmund Campion’s Rationes Decem 185
Gerard Kilroy
13 Lay Catholic Book Ownership and International Catholicism in
Elizabethan England 217
Earle Havens
14 Richard Verstegan as a Publicist of the Counter-Reformation:
Religion, Identity and Clandestine Literature 263
Marcin Polkowski
Index 289
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Preface
The inauguration of the long-awaited Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre in 2014 was
a great event for the theatre world. It reminded everyone of the long history
of English – Polish cultural relations: the new theatre was built on the site of
the only Shakespearian playhouse to have been constructed outside England
during the Bard’s lifetime. At the turn of the sixteenth century and in the early
seventeenth century, English acting troupes came to Gdańsk, then one of the
wealthiest cities in Europe, following the footsteps of English merchants who
came to trade Polish wheat. Having received license from the City Council,
the actors performed plays and impressed the burghers and the audiences of
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth audiences with their acting skills. Eng-
lish actors travelled across Europe to reach a town made known to them by
merchants and traders whom they met on their way. They travelled this far in
hope of earning income and performing the plays in places other than Lon-
don where the competition between theatre companies was growing. William
Shakespeare’s Hamlet unveils the realities of the life of English travelling act-
ing companies. The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre is thus a worthy memorial to
this long tradition of Shakespeare theatre performed in seventeenth century
Gdańsk.
There were, however, other cultural routes, other books and theatres,
which the Englishmen knew and visited. A lesser-known side of British and
Polish historical relations is the presence of the English and Scottish Catho-
lics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the years of the Eliz-
abethan settlement, British Catholics came to the Commonwealth to find
a safe haven and support. English and Scottish Jesuits were amongst those
who founded the first Jesuit Colleges in Poland and Lithuania. As the first-
generation professors of the Academy of Vilnius they taught mathematics,
astronomy, philosophy and theology. As these men travelled across the Conti-
nent to the Baltic Sea, they brought with them their stories recorded in their
books, which would otherwise have been suppressed if not confiscated and
sometimes burnt.
Prohibited books, subversive publishing and censorship in early modern
Poland and England: these were the topics which an international group
of scholars discussed on 24 – 26 of September 2014 in the Palace of Bishop
Erazm Ciołek (1474–1522), royal secretary to Polish King Alexander Jagiellon
(1461–1506), a distinguished bibliophile and illuminator of books. We are hap-
py to present the fruit of these intensive days of debate and discussion to the
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reader and take this opportunity to thank our patrons, the National Museum
of Kraków and National Science Centre of Poland whose generous patronage
under project number DEC 2011/01/D/HS2/03125, made both the conference
and the present publication possible.
The Editors
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List of Tables and Figures
Tables
8.1 A Comparative Table of the CWM and Holbeck Library Collections according
to categories 119
11.1 A Comparative Table of the passage on Divine Justice in Goslicius’ De Optimo
Senatore (Venice, 1568) and The Counsellor (the Ogden MS./L1598) 173
Figures
4.1 Mansio sapientiae coronata in triumphali Anroldi principis Angliae ad
paternum solium…, Mohylew 1732 48
4.2 Vindemia Sanguinis, olim inter vites e Georgio principe Clarentiae ante autumnum
aetatis ad sedandam honorum sitim ab Eduardo expressa…, Vilnius 1731 49
4.3 Rudnicki, Dominik [?], Vicarius Christi, semet ipsum pro nobis tradentis,
Divus Albanus, pro hospite ultro se hostibus offerens …, Warszawa 1701 50
6.1 Title page of Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł’s Hierosolymitana Peregrinatio
translated into Latin by Thomas Treter, printed in Braniewo in 1601 by
Georg Schonfels 73
6.2 A portrait of the young Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwłł, fol. b recto found in
Martin Crusius’ Poematum graecorum libri duo, printed in Basil in 1576 76
6.3 Title page of Rationes decem, Latin edition, printed in the Mikołaj Krzysztof
Radziwiłł Press in Vilnius in 1584 83
6.4 Title page of Dziesiȩć dowodów [Ten Disquisitions/theses], the Polish
t ranslation of Edmund Campion’s Rationes decem by Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga,
printed in the Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł Press in Vilnius in 1584 86
6.5 Title page of Dziesięć mocnych dowodów [Ten strong reasons], another
Polish translation of Edmund Campion’s Rationes Decem by Kasper or
Gaspar Wilkowski, printed in the Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł Press in
Vilnius in 1584 89
8.1 Map of key locations in Wales 111
8.2 Map of the English Province of the Society of Jesus 113
9.1 “Of the miseries of this life”: Luis de Granada, Of prayer, and meditation.
Wherein are conteined fowertien devoute meditations for the seven daies of the
weeke, trans. Richard Hopkins, Paris: 1582, fol. 153v 137
9.2 Taking up the cross of Christ: Luis de Granada, Of prayer, and meditation.
Wherein are conteined fowertien devoute meditations for the seven daies of the
weeke, trans. Richard Hopkins, Paris in 1582, title-page 139
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x List of Tables and Figures
12.1 Edmund Campion, Rationes Decem ([Stonor Park: Brinkley, 1581]), arcr i. 135.1,
Winchester copy (wn4): title page 186
12.2 Edmund Campion, Rationes Decem ([Stonor Park: Brinkley, 1581]), arcr i. 135.1,
Winchester copy (wn4).]: sig. A1v–A2r 191
12.3 Edmund Campion, Rationes Decem ([Stonor Park: Brinkley, 1581]), arcr i. 135.1,
Winchester copy (wn4): sig. K3v–K4r 198
12.4 Edmund Campion, Rationes Decem ([Stonor Park: Brinkley, 1581]), arcr i. 135.1,
Winchester copy (wn4): original parchment binding 202
12.5 Edmund Campion, Rationes Decem ([Stonor Park: Brinkley, 1581]), arcr i.
135.1, Winchester copy (wn4), Winchester copy: lease to Bellamy family of
Harrow 203
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