English Jesuit Education

Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762-1803

Maurice Whitehead

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781409448822
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317143048
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire du 19ème siècle

Analysing a period of 'hidden history', this book tracks the fate of the English Jesuits and their educational work through three major international crises of the eighteenth century: · the Lavalette affair, a major financial scandal, not of their making, which annihilated the Society of Jesus in France and led to the forced flight of exiled English Jesuits and their students from France to the Austrian Netherlands in 1762; · the universal suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 and the English Jesuits' remarkable survival of that event, following a second forced flight to the safety of the Principality of Liège; · the French Revolution and their narrow escape from annihilation in Liège in 1794, resulting in a third forced flight with their students, this time to England. Despite repeated crises, huge adversity and multiple losses of personnel, property and educational goods, including significant libraries, the suppressed English Jesuits reconfigured themselves. Modernising their curriculum, they influenced the development of Jesuit education not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the nascent United States of America: in 1789, their influence contributed to the founding of Georgetown Academy, which later developed into the present-day Georgetown University in Washington, DC. English Jesuit Education is a unique story of educational survival and development against seemingly impossible odds, drawing on hitherto largely unexplored material in a wide range of archives.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• Note on Spelling, Punctuation and Accentuation of Quotations and Transcripts
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Jesuit Education: The Beginnings, 1540–1592
• 2 ‘The best ordered in the world’: St Omers College, 1593–1762
• 3 The Lavalette Affair and the Flight from St Omers, 1762
• 4 The Road to Suppression: The English Jesuit Colleges at Bruges, 1762–1773
• 5 The Suppression at Bruges and the Fate of the English Jesuits, 1773–1774
• 6 Enlightenment and Reform: The Creation of the English Academy, Liège, 1773–1775
• 7 Building the Community at Liège, 1775–1783
• 8 Strengthening Corporate Identity, 1784–1790
• 9 From Suppression to Restoration: Liège to Stonyhurst, 1790–1803
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Rectors of the English Jesuit colleges at Saint-Omer and Bruges and the Director and Presidents of the English Academy, Liège, 1593–1794
• Appendix 2: The Protest of the English Jesuits at Saint-Omer, Upon Their Being Deprived of Their College (1762)
• Appendix 3: Prospectus of the Petit Collège anglais, or Little College, Bruges, circa 1766, AGR, CAPB, 812/1, f.1
• Appendix 4: Prospectus of the Grand Collège anglais, or Great College, Bruges, circa 1766, RB, Jezuïeten, 2735
• Appendix 5: Instructions for the Commissioners Responsible for the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in the Low Countries, AGR, Comité Jésuitique, 1
• Appendix 6: Retrospective List of All Jesuits in English Houses in the Austrian Netherlands and the Principality of Liège at the Suppression in September 1773, Indicating Their Later Place and Date of Death and Their Age at Death, ABSI, 14/1/3, Catalogus Personarum Provinciae Angliae Societatis Jesu, 1773
• Appendix 7: Plan of Studies at the Académie anglaise, Liège, circa 1780 SA, E.III.5
• Appendix 8: Rules of the Great Library at the Académie anglaise, Liège, circa 1792, BRL, Ms. 9773
• Appendix 9: Prospectus of Stonyhurst College, 1797–1798, SA, F.II.7 (7)
• Bibliography
• Index