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Journal Article
Equivocation, Cognition, and Political Authority in Early Modern England
2012
Overview
The increasing critical interest paid to Roman Catholicism and in particular the place of recusancy within the political, religious, and literary world of early modern England, however, has begun to bring renewed attention to both equivocation and Robert Persons, its primary Catholic expositor.2 Critics have begun to uncover the complexity of Persons's efforts in nurturing Catholicism, and in particular the Jesuit mission to England, from the late 1580s onward, recognizing that this project was not simply a matter of doctrine or politics but of writing, one in which the struggle for souls (and by extension for more temporal allegiances) was carried out through books, pamphlets, and manuscripts that themselves display some concern with the nature of text and practices of reading.3 Equivocation itself has experienced a similar growth in critical attention, with its focus on dissimulation being used to interpret the work of John Donne and Elizabeth Cary, as well as the position of Catholic women writers negotiating the constraints of politics and gender.4 Olga Valbuena in particular has situated equivocation within a larger trend toward what she terms \"divorsive thinking,\" itself sprung initially out of the religious and political conflicts engendered by Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and the Reformation that followed (xvii).
