So! My book!

The elevator pitch: looking at English Catholics abroad and trying to move beyond labelling the people themselves as 'exiles' (which has the danger of reducing their entire identity to their being abroad, and comes with connotations of victimhood and separation) 1/2

... and instead look at their mobility (which leaves more room for the dynamism of mobility, the going back-and-forth, the more positive reasons for going abroad). 1/2

(I just noticed how very neatly my cover fits the colour scheme of the EHS) #PrettyInGreen

It started out mainly as a contribution to the work on #earlymodern exile, trying to make a case for Catholic experiences in a field at the point of proposing the project (a decade ago!!! ) dominated by work on Protestant exiles, especially Calvinists.

There are lots of exciting ongoing Big Projects on #reformazing exiles.

Such as Rhineland Exiles and the Religious Landscape of the #DutchRepublic, c.1550-1618 with Jesse Spohnholz, Mirjam van Veen, @Swriteshistory, @PeterGorter3, and Inge Schipper https://labs.wsu.edu/religiousexiles/

and YAY! Jesse Spohnholz's latest book has *just* (as in: this week...) been published @cambUP_History!

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ruptured-lives-9780190696214?cc=us&lang=en&

And we won't have to wait too long for @Swriteshistory's wonderful work @Brill_History! https://twitter.com/Swriteshistory/status/1284055991248662528?s=20

Another ongoing Big Project On #Reformazing Exile is the @TheEarlyRefugee project with Geert Janssen, @DavidRdeBoer, Gerdien Evertse, @LottevHasselt, and @WallageHans

http://www.inventionoftherefugee.com/ 

More #earlymodern mobility stuff to look forward to!

Oh, a while back I tried to get #MovingHistory going. I'm going to give that another go. https://twitter.com/Swriteshistory/status/1296783210416922624?s=20

(ha, did I manage to mix up Oxford and Cambridge within the first hour of having access to this account. Yes. Yes I did. Way to wade into a centuries-old rivalry, Liesbeth...)

https://twitter.com/EcclesHistSoc/status/1296782311468523520?s=20

While my initial research proposal was focused on making a contribution to the field of exile studies, in the process of researching I felt I was also showing another side of the Catholic reformation and that historiography.

English Catholics (at home and abroad) thought of themselves as more than a footnote to what was going on in Rome, or a completely separate story.

Minority Catholicism has often been a bit siphoned off.

Foregrounding their mobility and how they fitted themselves into a Church which they saw as missionary and constantly in movement and growing (rather than a fixed, triumphant hierarchy) makes them more the spearhead of the counter-reformation than an afterthought.

(I tried to pitch my book as more of a contribution to that wider counter-reformation than solely to the history of English Catholicism, and that pitch does shape the claims of what I am trying to contribute to the conversation, but that hasn't been appreciated by all reviewers)

Research on the Counter-Reformation is still going strong.

And research on Catholic minorities is booming and developing really exciting research paths. I'll come back to much of this when talking about the chapters, but for now a couple of shouts to ECR #twitterstorians

Dutch Catholic history: @JaapGeraerts @DrJanMachielsen @elisewatson_ @EMFVerheggen

#recusantsbaby: @emilieKMmurphy @DrKLMcKeogh @EilishGregory @LiamPeterTemple @CReutcke @PizzoniGiada @HannahJane85 @apmuller12 @SLJohanesen @EstherRollinson

(oh god, I'm forgetting so many)

anyway, tag more #twitterstorians who are working on #earlymodern Catholic minorities

And I'll see you shortly to talk about some of the chapters in my book.