British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600–1900

Simone Maghenzani is Dame Marilyn Strathern Lecturer in History, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Stefano Villani is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Introduction Section 1: Missionary Models 1. ‘One World is not enough’: the ‘myth’ of Roman Catholicism as a ‘World Religion’ 2. The Jesuits have shed much blood for Christ’: Early Modern Protestants and the Problem of Catholic Overseas Missions Section 2: The Origins of Global Protestantism 3. (Re)making Ireland British: Conversion and Civility in a Neglected 1643 Treatise 4. Charting the ‘Progress of Truth’: Quaker Missions and the Topography of Dissent in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe 5. The English and the Italian Bible Section 3: Missions and Church Unifications in the Age of the Enlightenment 6. "True Catholic Unity": The Church of England and the Project for Gallican Union, 1717-1719 7. "Promoting the Common Interest of Christ" H.W. Ludolf’s ‘impartial’ Projects and the Beginnings of the SPCK 8. Between Anti-popery and European Missions: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Networks Section 4: A British Missionary Land 9. The Evangelical Transformation of British Protestantism for Mission 10. The London Jews’ Society and the Roots of Premillenialism, 1809-1829 11. Missions on the Fringes of Europe: British Protestants and the Orthodox Churches, c. 1800-1850 Section 5: Making Propaganda, Making Nations 12. Sermons in Stone: Architecture and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts within the Diocese of Gibraltar, c.1842-1882 13. The Land of Calvin and Voltaire: British Missionaries in Nineteenth-century Paris