Project description
How Catholics used theatre, dance, music, sports and ceremonies to create communal bonds
During the early modern period, the Protestant English state persecuted Catholics, excluding them from political life. The EU-funded CaPer project will study this marginalised community by analysing theatrical forms of recreation and sociability that English Catholics engaged in. It will undertake an innovative approach to exploring inequality, intolerance, and social exclusion, issues that also represent the main challenges for the future of Europe. CaPer will comprehensively investigate how Catholics used theatre, dance, music, sports, and ceremonies to create communal bonds, negotiate their place in a hostile society, and advance Catholic Reformation in the period between Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne in 1558 and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Relying on a variety of archival and literary sources, CaPer will rethink the cultural history of English Catholics, introduce to historiography previously neglected historical actors and practices, and expand our knowledge of religious coexistence in early modern Europe.
Objective
CaPer is an ambitious interdisciplinary project exploring how forms of play and recreation helped shape and sustain the Catholic minority in Protestant England. In faith-divided early modern Europe, the English state persecuted Catholics for their religious allegiance, excluding them from political life. How did the marginalized Catholic minority, navigating between opposition and loyalty to their Protestant monarchs, survive in such a hostile environment? Exploring issues of religious intolerance, inequality, and social exclusion, CaPer adresses one of the main challenges for the future of Europe. Studying the English Catholic community from an innovative perspective, it examines sources and practices which historians have hitherto rarely considered. It breaks new ground by comprehensively investigating how Catholics built communal bonds and negotiated their place in English society through theatre, dance, music, sports, and ceremonies throughout the period of the most vigorous religious persecution, from the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Tapping into underexplored archives in order to collect and analyse a vast quantity of neglected records of performance, and paying attention to both microcosms within provincial Britain and international networks of global Catholicism, CaPer will: a) produce a new cultural history of the English Catholic community, demonstrating how performance played a crucial role in education, sociability, missionary activity, private devotion, and in maintaining Catholic social standing; b) introduce to historiography previously neglected practices and actors, including women players, dancing masters, music teachers, and itinerant entertainers; c) expand our knowledge of practical religious coexistence in the early modern period, providing a blueprint for future studies of play and leisure among religious minorities, and inform contemporary European policies aimed at reducing social exclusion.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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WC1E 6BT London
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