Father Andrew White, The Jesuit Order, and the Marketing of Colonial Maryland

<p><em>Father</em> <em>Andrew</em> <em>White</em>, a leading <em>Jesuit</em> and esteemed promoter <em>of</em> <em>the</em> <em>Maryland</em> colony, kept a journal <em>of</em> his voyage to <em>Maryland</em>, which was subsequently published as <em>Relatio Iteneris in Marylandiam.</em> <em>White</em> also composed <em>Declaratio Coloniae Domini Baronis de Balltimore, </em>a document that masterfully marketed <em>the</em> <em>colonial</em> venture to lay English Catholics. <em>The</em> <em>Relatio</em> is an engaging account <em>of</em> <em>the</em> voyage to and initial settlement <em>of</em> <em>Maryland</em>; <em>the</em> <em>Declaratio</em> is a promotional tract written to ensure <em>the</em> successful creation <em>of</em> <em>the</em> new colony. Together <em>the</em> documents promoted <em>the</em> enterprise to <em>the</em> <em>Jesuit</em> <em>Order</em>, but also provide valuable economic, religious, and legal data about English Catholics. <em>White’s</em> promotion <em>of</em> <em>the</em> colony to <em>the</em> <em>Jesuit</em> <em>Order</em> and <em>the</em> elite British Catholic community reveals underlying patterns <em>of</em> religious and material consumption. Interactions between British Catholics, <em>the</em> <em>Jesuit</em> <em>Order</em>, and non-Catholics both in England and in <em>the</em> Americas form a secondary focus in <em>order</em> to contextualize <em>the</em> English Catholic experience in <em>the</em> Early Modern Atlantic. <em>The</em> analysis <em>of</em> <em>White’s</em> texts exposes <em>the</em> means by which English Catholic identity was constructed in <em>the</em> trans-Atlantic world during <em>the</em> seventeenth century and elucidates <em>the</em> schisms within <em>the</em> English Catholic community that ultimately led to <em>the</em> loss <em>of</em> Catholic power and religious liberty in <em>Maryland</em>.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

History, PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Arts and Humanities

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Feres, Angela

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janet Farrell-Brodie
• Robert Dawidoff

• Philosophy
• religion and theology
• Social sciences
• Andrew White
• Colonial history
• English Reformation
• Jesuit order
• Lord Baltimore
• Maryland
• Religion
• United States History

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/884

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1906