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Edmund CampionA Scholarly Life\nAuthor(s): Gerard Kilroy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138089075, 978-1138089075\nSynopsis\nEdmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to Evelyn Waughs call, in 1935, for a scholarly biography to replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion [tel]. Whereas early accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit priest, this new biography presents a more balanced assessment, placing equal weight on Campions London upbringing among printers and preachers, and on his growing stature as an orator in an Oxford riven with religious divisions. Ireland, chosen by Campion as a haven from religious conflict, is shown, paradoxically, to have determined his life and his death.\nGerard Kilroy here draws on newly discovered manuscript sources to reveal Campion as a charismatic and affectionate scholar who was finding fulfilment as priest and teacher in Prague when .