The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism

In The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism leading international scholars provide a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era.

Alison Forrestal, Ph.D (2000), University of Manchester, is lecturer in History at National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). She is the author of Catholic Synods in Ireland, 1600-1690 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998), and Fathers, Pastors and Kings: Visions of Episcopacy in Seventeenth-Century France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).

Seán Alexander Smith, Ph.D. (2012), National University of Ireland, Galway, is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. His monograph Fealty and Fidelity: the Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736 was recently published (London: Routledge, 2015).