Liam Chambers is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at Mary Immaculate College, LimerickThomas O'Connor is Professor of History at Maynooth University

‘This is a collection which demonstrates the potential richness of this field of study, and which suggests several approaches which could lift the study of Catholic minorities out of their familiar national templates and help to create a historiography which paints a much wider picture, deepening our understanding of early modern Catholicism, and simultaneously of those national histories.’Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick'College Communities Abroad offers an impressive collection of essays that provide new insight into the nature of Catholic colleges founded by migrants from Protestant states.'History of Education'This handsomely produced collection of eight essays by established and new scholars based in Ireland, England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland and Switzerland makes a very important contribution towards advancing our understanding of these college communities. The editors are to be credited with producing a publication that eschews particularism and instead, for the first time, reflects on the history of Irish, English and Scots colleges alongside that of Dutch, Scandinavian and Maronite institutions.'Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu

• 1 Introduction – college communities abroad: education, migration and Catholicism in early modern Europe – Liam Chambers2 The Society of Jesus and the early history of the Collegium Germanicum, 1552–84 – Urban Fink3 Colleges and their alternatives in the educational strategy of early modern Dutch Catholics – Willem Frijhoff4 The domestic and international roles of Irish overseas colleges, 1590–1800 – Thomas O’Connor5 The Scots colleges and international politics, 1600–1750 – Adam Marks6 Seminary colleges, converts and religious change in post-Reformation England, 1568–1688 – Michael Questier7 The Maronite college in early modern Rome: between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Letters – Aurélien Girard and Giovanni Pizzorusso8 English women religious, the exile male colleges and national identities in Counter-Reformation Europe – James E. Kelly Index

Liam Chambers is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at Mary Immaculate College, LimerickThomas O'Connor is Professor of History at Maynooth University

‘This is a collection which demonstrates the potential richness of this field of study, and which suggests several approaches which could lift the study of Catholic minorities out of their familiar national templates and help to create a historiography which paints a much wider picture, deepening our understanding of early modern Catholicism, and simultaneously of those national histories.’Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick'College Communities Abroad offers an impressive collection of essays that provide new insight into the nature of Catholic colleges founded by migrants from Protestant states.'History of Education'This handsomely produced collection of eight essays by established and new scholars based in Ireland, England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland and Switzerland makes a very important contribution towards advancing our understanding of these college communities. The editors are to be credited with producing a publication that eschews particularism and instead, for the first time, reflects on the history of Irish, English and Scots colleges alongside that of Dutch, Scandinavian and Maronite institutions.'Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu

• 1 Introduction – college communities abroad: education, migration and Catholicism in early modern Europe – Liam Chambers2 The Society of Jesus and the early history of the Collegium Germanicum, 1552–84 – Urban Fink3 Colleges and their alternatives in the educational strategy of early modern Dutch Catholics – Willem Frijhoff4 The domestic and international roles of Irish overseas colleges, 1590–1800 – Thomas O’Connor5 The Scots colleges and international politics, 1600–1750 – Adam Marks6 Seminary colleges, converts and religious change in post-Reformation England, 1568–1688 – Michael Questier7 The Maronite college in early modern Rome: between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Letters – Aurélien Girard and Giovanni Pizzorusso8 English women religious, the exile male colleges and national identities in Counter-Reformation Europe – James E. Kelly Index