This book charts the political, economic and cultural dimension of Spanish royal patronage of Irish Catholics in the British Isles during the Seventeenth Century, from the training of missionaries to the role of priests, friars and other Irish servants in Spanish foreign politics.
This book offers a new perspective on the strategy of the Spanish monarchy after the Peace of London (1604), focusing on the missionary networks created around the Catholic diaspora to the Iberian Peninsula and their political significance.
