Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero, And Martyr
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Evelyn Waugh
Binding: Paperback
Published: Oxford University Press, 1980
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Evelyn Waugh’s masterful biography of Edmund Campion offers a penetrating portrait of a sixteenth-century Jesuit priest whose life ended in martyrdom. In 1581, Campion was condemned for treason and executed at Tyburn for his clandestine ministry in Protestant England. He would later be beatified. Waugh, writing with precision and reverence, presents Campion as a poet, scholar, and spiritual hero. His narrative traces Campion’s rise as a brilliant Oxford academic, his European travels, and his ill-fated return to England on a covert religious mission. With the insight of a novelist, Waugh reconstructs the atmosphere of repression and danger, asserting that “the hunted, trapped murdered priest is our contemporary and Campion’s voice sounds to us across the centuries.”
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Binding: Paperback
Published: Oxford University Press, 1980
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Evelyn Waugh’s masterful biography of Edmund Campion offers a penetrating portrait of a sixteenth-century Jesuit priest whose life ended in martyrdom. In 1581, Campion was condemned for treason and executed at Tyburn for his clandestine ministry in Protestant England. He would later be beatified. Waugh, writing with precision and reverence, presents Campion as a poet, scholar, and spiritual hero. His narrative traces Campion’s rise as a brilliant Oxford academic, his European travels, and his ill-fated return to England on a covert religious mission. With the insight of a novelist, Waugh reconstructs the atmosphere of repression and danger, asserting that “the hunted, trapped murdered priest is our contemporary and Campion’s voice sounds to us across the centuries.”