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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life

By Robert Bernard Martin (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Probably no English poet of the 19th century is today so widely read or greatly loved as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yet in his lifetime he was almost entirely unpublished, and only a handful of his close friends knew that he wrote poetry at all.

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The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors

By Robert Bireley (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Christian princes waged the first pan-European war from 1618 to 1648. Brought about in part by the entrenched passions of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the Thirty Years War inevitably drew in the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, who stood at the vanguard of Catholic Reform. This book investigates … Continued