Date of Award

2011

Degree Type

Open Access Dissertation

Degree Name

History, PhD

Program

School of Arts and Humanities

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Lori Anne Ferrell

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Janet Farrell-Brodie

Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member

Robert Dawidoff

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Rights Information

© 2011 Angela Feres

Keywords

Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Andrew White, Colonial history, English Reformation, Jesuit order, Lord Baltimore, Maryland

Subject Categories

Religion | United States History

Abstract

Father Andrew White, a leading Jesuit and esteemed promoter of the Maryland colony, kept a journal of his voyage to Maryland, which was subsequently published as Relatio Iteneris in Marylandiam. White also composed Declaratio Coloniae Domini Baronis de Balltimore, a document that masterfully marketed the colonial venture to lay English Catholics. The Relatio is an engaging account of the voyage to and initial settlement of Maryland; the Declaratio is a promotional tract written to ensure the successful creation of the new colony. Together the documents promoted the enterprise to the Jesuit Order, but also provide valuable economic, religious, and legal data about English Catholics. White’s promotion of the colony to the Jesuit Order and the elite British Catholic community reveals underlying patterns of religious and material consumption. Interactions between British Catholics, the Jesuit Order, and non-Catholics both in England and in the Americas form a secondary focus in order to contextualize the English Catholic experience in the Early Modern Atlantic. The analysis of White’s texts exposes the means by which English Catholic identity was constructed in the trans-Atlantic world during the seventeenth century and elucidates the schisms within the English Catholic community that ultimately led to the loss of Catholic power and religious liberty in Maryland.

Comments

This document is alternately called Declaratio iteneris in Marilandia. Andrew, White, S.J. Relation in Marylandiam: Declaratio Coloniae Domini Baronis de Batlimoro. Excerpta Ex Diversis Litteris Missionariorum Ab Anno 1635, Ad Annum 1638. Vatican Library. William McSherry, Ed. Trans by Rev. E. A. Dalrymple, S.T. D. (Baltimore, February 1874), Fund Publication, No. 7.

ISBN

978-1-124-60613-2

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