Lisbon College: the Penultimate Chapter

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-95
Author(s):  
Michael E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Recent History ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Small College ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
Complete Account

It is more than twenty-five years since the English College Lisbon closed. While it may still be too soon to give a complete account of that closure, one can consider some of the events in its more recent history that preceded its final end. The closure cannot be attributed solely to the conditions obtaining in 1971 and the decline in the recruitment to the secular clergy of England and Wales. In that year vocations to the priesthood had not yet reached their lowest point. Moreover, throughout its 350 years Lisbon had not depended for its viability on enrolling a large number of students. It had always been a small college. Although its primary purpose was to prepare men for the priesthood it had frequently found itself having to fulfil other functions in addition to those of a seminary.

Penal Policies and Institutional Sociologies

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-131
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Watson
Keyword(s):  
Current Approach ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
What Matters

Given that respect is, almost without exception, one of the first values to emerge in conversations with inmates about ‘what matters’ in prison, one could be forgiven for assuming that scholars had given the issue thorough attention. This is not the case. This chapter—the first of two on prisons—situates a number of institutional sociologies of the prison in relation to the key trends in penal policy with which they coincided. In so doing, it offers a critique of the current approach to respect in prisons in England and Wales and identifies moments in recent history when respect—however reductively understood—was especially pronounced.

The Origins of St. Gregory’s, Paris

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony F. Allison
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Other ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Small College ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

St. Gregory’s was a small college belonging to the English secular clergy founded at Paris in the late seventeenth century. Its main purpose was to enable suitable ecclesiastics who had completed their training at Douai or the other colleges abroad to pursue advanced studies at the Sorbonne before working on the mission in England. Its founders hoped it would serve to produce a corps of highly qualified men to fill the leading administrative and teaching posts in the Catholic Church in England. It survived until 1786 when financial difficulties forced it to close—temporarily, as was at first thought. During the Revolution it suffered the fate of the other English Catholic institutions in France, and it never, in fact, reopened. Among the documents that have survived from its archives is a Register Book covering the whole period of its existence from its first beginnings in 1667 until it closed down over a century later. This Register Book, which records the arrival and departure of students, the stages in their university career, their promotion to holy orders, deaths occurring at the college, and occasional memoranda of events affecting the life of the community, was edited for the Catholic Record Society in 1917 by the late Monsignor Edwin Burton.

Anstruther Analysed: The Elizabethan Seminary Priests1

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McGrath ◽  
Joy Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Source Material ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Great Range ◽  
Final Volume ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
Historical Awareness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Solid Foundation

THE FIRST VOLUME of Fr. Godfrey Anstruther'sTheSeminary Priests: A Dictionary of the Secular Clergy of England and Wales, 1558-1850appeared in 1968, and in subsequent years it was followed by three other volumes. For various reasons, Fr. Anstruther did not complete the fifth and final volume, although he had collected a great deal of material for it. His achievement was remarkable, all the more so because it was carried out single-handed, not with the assistance of a team of scholars, and he used a great range of source-material in foreign as well as in British archives. This major contribution to the history of post-Reformation Catholicism has not always received the credit it deserves, and it is a sad comment on the historical awareness of the English Catholic community that the volumes did not sell as well as they should have done. Inevitably in a work of such magnitude, there were a number of errors, but those who are ready to point out details which Fr. Anstruther got wrong must never forget how much he got right and how his monumental and much-used dictionary has provided scholars with a solid foundation on which to build.

St Alban’s College, Valladolid and the Events of 1767

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Michael E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
England And Wales ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
The One ◽  
English Students ◽  
The Way

This article is based on documents in the National Historical Archive in Madrid and concerns the expulsion of the Jesuits from St. Alban’S College Valladolid. The connection with English Catholicism may appear at first to be remote since, although nominally an English college, there were only two English students resident at this time and the Jesuit staff who administered the college together with the servants were all Spaniards. But the English Vicars Apostolic, however critical they may have been towards the Jesuits, continued to regard the three colleges at Valladolid, Madrid and Seville as English, their purpose being to prepare priests to serve on the home mission in England and Wales. The response to the events of 1767 was swift and the colleges, although lost to the Jesuits, were retained for England since the three were merged into the one college at Valladolid and placed under the direction of the English secular clergy. There had been a precedent in the French government’s seizure of the English College at St. Omer in 1762, but the way in which His Catholic Majesty Charles III engineered the expulsion of the Jesuits from his kingdoms was remarkable for its thoroughness.

Lisbon College in the Nineteenth Century: The Story of a Relationship Between English Catholics and the Church Abroad

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-588
Author(s):  
Michael E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
The Church

Founded in the seventeenth century the College of Saints Peter and Paul at Lisbon was for many years one of the overseas seminaries that provided for the education and formation of the secular clergy of England and Wales. When at the beginning of the nineteenth century seminaries began to be established in England the need for these foreign colleges grew less apparent. But the English bishops not only saw special reasons for continuing and strengthening the connection with Rome, but also decided to continue to support the two colleges in the Iberian Peninsula. There were similarities between the situations at Valladolid and Lisbon but the distinct histories of the Church in the two countries provided nuances and shades of difference that were sometimes not fully appreciated by the hierarchy. This article which uses hitherto unpublished material to be found in the archives of Lisbon College, treats of that College between the years 1807 and 1883 when the difficult conditions in Portugal called for special qualities in those English priests whose responsibility it was to maintain the College in being.

Looking for Trouble: A Recent History of Girls, Young Women and Youth Justice

Youth Justice ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loraine Gelsthorpe ◽  
Anne Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Over Time

This article summarizes key issues in the historical conceptualization of, and responses to, girls’ delinquency. Drawing on historical material, we tease out distinctive elements of the conception and perception of girls’ delinquency in England and Wales. We demonstrate some of the inherent and pervasive myths, muddles and misconceptions in their treatment and outline the implicit as well as the explicit reinforcement of gender stereotypes which have informed theory, policy and practice over time. Yet whilst ‘welfare’ perspectives have often brought trouble for girls in terms of excessive intervention, modern ‘justice’ perspectives have perhaps criminalized girls’ genuine welfare needs.

scholarly journals Probation practice in a velvet cage? Specialist court work after probation privatisation in England and Wales

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Turbulent Field ◽  
History Of

This article presents findings of a study of pre-sentence probation work in Magistrates’ courts in England and Wales in the wake of a process of partial privatisation of probation services in that jurisdiction. Specifically it addresses the subjective experiences of probation workers in two court teams and seeks to make sense of the finding that, despite clear evidence of a process of McDonaldization in the court setting, probation practitioners in this study experienced their work in terms that were largely positive. Using a Weberian analytical framework, it is argued that this finding can only be fully understood with reference to the recent history of unprecedented rupture in the probation arena, and to a generalised perception of the court team as a ‘place of safety’ in an otherwise hostile and turbulent field. Thus, whilst confined in Weber’s metaphorical cage, practitioners experienced this less as a cage of iron than of rubber and velvet.

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