Summer School

Our annual Summer School, for students of Thomas More College inwards New Hampshire together with others, directed yesteryear Leonie together with Teresa Caldecott, turned out to live nifty fun. The 2012 course of report concluded yesteryear looking at Christian writers of the afterward nineteenth together with twentieth century who stand upwards for a “Catholic literary revival” – travel of the Catholic resurgence prophesied yesteryear Newman inwards his “Second Spring” sermon of 1852, after the lifting of restrictions that had been imposed on Catholics since the Reformation. We studied the roots of this revival inwards the English linguistic communication Catholic civilization earlier together with after the Reformation, including the dissolution of the monasteries together with the persecutions that followed. The conflicts together with tensions inwards Reformation England were studied through the eyes of our greatest writer, William Shakespeare, amongst the assist of Lady Asquith, author of the vivid Shadowplay.

Thus for the the kickoff travel of the School nosotros located the students at Downside Abbey, inwards the West Country close Bath, where the Abbot, Dom Aidan Bellenger, gave approximately superb lectures on the dissolution of the monasteries, together with other lecturers spoke on the subsequent history of the Reformation. Downside is close to Mells, too, the household unit of measurement domicile of Lady Asquith, together with at that spot were excursions at that spot together with to Wells, Bath, together with Glastonbury. Then off to Oxford via the White Horse of Uffington together with the recusant solid at Mapledurham, kindly hosted yesteryear the possessor John Eyston (a straight descendant of St Thomas More).

In Oxford the students stayed at the Benedictine Hall of the University, St Benet's, together with at that spot nosotros began to focus on the 19th century Catholic Emancipation, the Oxford Movement, together with the Catholic revival itself, amongst G.K. Chesterton its biggest fruit (and hither access to the Chesterton Library gave an almost sacramental connector to the nifty human being himself). Visits to colleges, to C.S. Lewis's domicile at the Kilns, his grave inwards Headington Quarry together with Tolkien's grave at Wolvercote, all helped to convey the ideas to life. (The film shows Aidan Mackey together with Stratford Caldecott amongst approximately of the students inwards the Chesterton Library.)

The lastly even out inwards Oxford was spent amongst Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis's friend, together with the lastly hateful solar daytime involved an excursion to London, to encounter Westminster Abbey, St Thomas More's prison theatre cellular telephone inwards the Tower of London, together with a functioning of The Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Theatre. The sense of a lifetime? Perhaps, though nosotros promise to encounter many of our students supply to watch us inwards the future.

Leonie, Teresa, together with Stratford Caldecott

Photos are from our Facebook page. Watch out for announcements yesteryear the destination of the yr nearly side yesteryear side summer's programme!

See also the next posts:
Revival together with Romanticism
Effects of the Reformation

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