English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-Century Paris

An investigation of the activities of Catholic exiles in Paris, showing them to have a wider influence on both sides of the Channel.

Religious exile was both a familiar and a deeply discomforting phenomenon in Reformation Europe. In the turbulent context of the later sixteenth century, a group of English Catholic exiles in Paris became a source of serious concern to the Protestant government at home and a destabilising presence in their host environment; their residence in Paris coincided wi...