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Thomas Stapleton1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

Michael Richards
Michael Richards
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Lecturer in Church History, St. Edmund's College, Ware
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In 1620, twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Stapleton received the tribute hoped for, I suppose, by many, if not all professors. Four of his friends collected together his works and published them. His Opera Omnia fill four folio volumes: translation, controversy, the fruit of his years of lecturing worked over and set out in lengthy, ordered dissertations, history, biography, moral instruction, panegyric, speeches made on academic occasions, commentaries on the Sunday, feast-day and Lenten gospels. The whole was prefaced by a life of the author written in Latin verse by Henry Holland. The best preserved and best cared-for copy is to be found in Lambeth Palace library.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , October 1967 , pp. 187 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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References

page 188 note 1 In Man as Churchman, Cambridge, 1960.Google Scholar

page 188 note 2 Leuridan, T., ‘Les Theologiens de Douai—vi. Thomas Stapleton’, Revue des sciences ecclésiastiques, lxxiii (1896), 331–49.Google Scholar

page 189 note 1 Aveling, H., Post-Reformation Catholicism in East Yorkshire, 1558–1790, York 1960, 15Google Scholar.

page 190 note 1 H. de Vocht published a study of Harding, Thomas in the English Historical Review, xxxv (1920), 233–44Google Scholar. He was able to say then that the history of the Challenge controversy had not been written. This has since been remedied by the work of A. C. Southern, W. M. Southgate and J. E. Booty, but Fr. de Vocht's second desideratum, the publication of a corpus of catholic divines, has still to see fulfilment. The absence of such a corpus makes itself felt in the work of Southgate and Booty. The recusant research library now being set up at St. Edmund's College, Ware, may play a small part in making these works readily accessible. The British Museum and other libraries have been particularly interested in acquiring recusant works in recent years. But the energy which produced an enterprise like the Parker Society collection, now being partially reprinted, has so far been wanting in this particular direction.

page 191 note 1 Gembloux 1932.

page 192 note 1 London 1962.

page 194 note 1 Disputatio, 1588, 200 (Parker Society ed., 279–80).

page 195 note 1 Op. cit., 1588, 371 (P.S., 497).

page 195 note 2 Opera Omnia, 1620, i. 509 A.

page 196 note 1 Opera Omnia, i. 795 AB.

page 196 note 2 Op. cit., 300.

page 196 note 3 Opera Omnia, 1620, i. 513 D.

page 196 note 4 Ibid., i. 515 A.

page 197 note 1 Opera Omnia, i. 764 AC.

page 197 note 2 See Hurley, M. S.J., ‘A Pre-Tridentine theology of Tradition, Thomas Netter of Walden (1430)’, Heythrop Journal, iv (1963), 346–66.Google Scholar

page 197 note 3 Oxford History of English Literature, iii. 1954, 455.

page 198 note 1 Opera Omnia, i. 792 C, D.

page 198 note 2 London 1959, 231.

page 199 note 1 O'Connell, M., Thomas Stapleton and the Counter Reformation, New Haven and London 1964, 80, 94, 113.Google Scholar