Philip Howard. Cardinal protector of England. By Godfrey Anstruther, op (edited by Gerard Skinner, foreword Judith Champ, ). Pp. xiv + 306 incl. frontispiece and 4 ills. Leominster: Gracewing, 2020. £20 (paper). 978 085244 953 0

Philip Howard. Cardinal protector of England. By Godfrey Anstruther op (edited by Gerard Skinner, foreword Judith Champ). Pp. xiv + 306 incl. frontispiece and 4 ills. Leominster: Gracewing, 2020. £20 (paper). 978 085244 953 0

The work of Godfrey Anstruther, who died in 1988, laid essential foundation stones for modern studies of post-Reformation English Catholicism. His four-volume ‘dictionary’ of The seminary priests, 1558–1850 (1968–77) remains a magisterial anatomy of the English secular clergy: a crucial resource for insights into the mission and its place within recusant society. Scholars will welcome the publication of Anstruther's manuscript on the life of his fellow Dominican, Cardinal Philip Howard; surprisingly, one of only two full-length biographies of a figure integral to our understanding of Catholicism in later seventeenth-century England. Howard's quiet ministration...