ABSTRACT
This chapter looks both at Anthony Munday's representation of Catholics, and at his strategies of self-representation within a Catholic milieu. It rehearses various social and literary contexts of The English Roman Life, and considers ways in which government attempts to identify the activities of Jesuits with subversive practices impact upon Munday's own self-presentation. The chapter provides a close textual analysis of the tensions demonstrated by Munday as an English Protestant traveller to Rome. It analyses Munday's self-conscious representations of the reasons motivating his travel to. The chapter explores his distinction between secular and religious travel as a means of discriminating between loyal and disloyal English subjects. It examines Munday's related insistence that he has successfully resisted the challenge presented by Rome to his Anglo-Protestant identity. The chapter ends with his attempts to challenge Catholic depictions of the holy influence and uninterrupted genealogy of Rome.
