|
|
WESTON, WILLIAM; WAUGH, EVELYN (FOREWORD). ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
|
1 |
WESTON, WILLIAM; WAUGH, EVELYN (FOREWORD). An Autobiography From The Jesuit Underground.
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., New York: 1955. First Printing. h Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition.
This autobiography was written at Seville in 1611, eight years after the author had been exiled from England. The simpl and unstudied narrative reveals a man eminently honest and anxious to recall faithfully the smallest detail of his experiences. So far from impinging on Weston's truthfulness, many of the strange stories told in this book, which led earlier writers to dismiss Weston as a credulous dupe, can now be shown to exemplify common forms of hysteria; in fact, they offder a fascinating case-history of Elizabethan melancholic disorders and reveal in an intimate manner the mental agony endured by men and women who accepted the change of religion against their conscience. Includes an Index. Translated into English from the Latin by Philip Caraman.
Price:
31.70 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
