Ana Saez-Hidalgo

• University of Valladolid

The rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies, and its integration into the wider historiographical project, continues to focus attention on Robert Persons as one of the most significant public figures of the Reformation era in England. As the superior of the Jesuit English mission from 1580 until 1610, he was engaged in a controversial...

Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances and corresponding antagonisms. Such conditions notwithstanding, the essays in this volume challenge conventionally monolithic vie...

This article studies Joseph Shepherd and his role in Anglo‐Spanish cultural exchange in the last decades of the eighteenth century, at the dawn of Anglophilia in Spain. Though largely unknown, this Catholic recusant, established in Spain as rector of the Royal English College of St Alban in order to continue the training of English priests, became...

- Michael Briody, ed. The Scots College, Spain, 1767–1780: Memoirs of the Translation of the Scotch College from Madrid to Valladolid, Salamanca: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 2015, pp. 202, £15.00, ISBN: 978-84-16066-61-2. - Volume 33 Issue 4 - Ana Sáez-Hidalgo

Given the four elements involved in having a communicative competence, it could be argued that learning a L2 does not only involve overcoming linguistic differences, but also cultural ones. Following a double conceptualization of “culture”, we will show our experience as teachers of History of the English Language (HEL), and the potential usefulnes...

The interest in medieval English literature and its history dates back to the eighteenth century, when antiquarians and literary critics started to recover, edit and comment—and sometimes forge—texts that either revived or documented the past. By the time Thomas Warton published his History of English Poetry (1774–1791), Thomas Hearne had already e...

This book presents a thorough edition of a so-far unpublished manuscript preserved at St Alban's English College in Valladolid, Spain. Written by Philip M. Perry, who was rector of this Catholic seminary from 1768 until his death in 1774, the Sketch of the Ancient British History provides a historical account stretching from the arrival of the Roma...

This book presents a thorough edition of a so-far unpublished manuscript preserved at St Alban's English College in Valladolid, Spain. Written by Philip M. Perry, who was rector of this Catholic seminary from 1768 until his death in 1774, the Sketch of the Ancient British History provides a historical account stretching from the arrival of the Roma...

Parmi les séminaires établis après la Réforme, le Collège de St-Alban de Valladolid a joué un rôle politique et religieux particulièrement significatif. Dès ses premières années, la couronne espagnole a démontré son soutien envers le Collège des Anglais, et exprimé ses objectifs à travers une série de visites royales. Chaque visite était différente...

With a rich history of over four centuries behind it, St. Alban’s English College in Valladolid possesses bibliographical and documentary sources of an exceptional wealth. The present paper reports on the constitution of a team of researchers in the University of Valladolid permanently devoted to the study of such documentary holdings. Extensive re...

This course intends to explore the rich relations between Spain and England in the 16 th and 17th centuries, a period when war and religious strife were central to the way they saw each other, but that also witnessed a cultural golden age in both countries. The towering figures of Shakespeare and Cervantes are the two major representatives of the l...