Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Liam Chambers and Thomas O’Connor -- 1 Irish Collegians in Spanish Service (1560–1803) / Thomas O’Connor -- 2 Seraphic Sparks: The Irish Franciscan and Capuchin Colleges on the Continent / Mícheál Mac Craith -- 3 Pietas Austriaca and ‘Dispensers of Royal Authority’: The Early Irish Colleges and Habsburg Cultural Strategies / Declan M. Downey -- 4 ‘Bullworks against the furie of heresie’: Identity, Education, and Mission in the English Jesuit College of St Omers / Jan Graffius -- 5 The English Benedictines in Eighteenth-Century Lorraine / Frédéric Richard-Maupillier -- 6 The Spanish Court, Ecclesiastical Patronage, and the Irish College of Santiago de Compostela (1611–17) / Ciaran O’Scea -- 7 The Early Failures of the Irish College Rome, 1628–78 / Matteo Binasco -- 8 Financial Mismanagement at the Irish College, 1772–98 / Christopher Korten -- 9 English Recusant Controversy in Spanish Print Culture: Dissemination, Popularisation, Fictionalisation / Ana Sáez-Hidalgo -- 10 Creating an Irish Identity: Print, Culture, and the Irish Franciscans of Louvain / Marc Caball -- 11 The ‘British Establishments’, the Irish college in Paris and Restoration France, 1814–30 / Liam Chambers -- 12 The Trouble with France: Making Scots Priests in France, 1818–78 / Iida Saarinen -- 13 The Transformation of the Irish College, Paris: War, Education, and Administration, 1870–1918 / Justin Dolan Stover -- Index / Liam Chambers and Thomas O’Connor.

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Forming Catholic Communities assesses the histories of Irish, English and Scots colleges established abroad in the early-modern period for Catholic students. The contributions provide a co-ordinated series of case studies which reflect the most up-to-date research on the colleges. The essays address interactions with European states, international networking, educational frameworks, financial challenges, print culture and institutional survival into the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. From these essays, the colleges emerge as unexpectedly complex institutions. With their financial, pastoral, and intellectual networks, they provided an educational infrastructure that, whatever its short-comings, remained crucial to the domestic and international communities they served during more than two centuries.

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