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The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800 : Communities, Culture and Identity / edited by Caroline Bowden (Queen Mary University of London, UK), James E. Kelly (Durham University, UK)

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"In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Kelly, James E. (Author)
Other Authors: Bowden, Caroline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.
Subjects:
Monastic and religious life of women > England > History > 17th century.
Monastic and religious life of women > England > History > 18th century.
Monastic and religious life of women > Europe > History > 17th century.
Monastic and religious life of women > Europe > History > 18th century.
Monastic and religious life of women.
England.
Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction / Caroline Bowden
  • part PART I Communities
  • chapter 1 From Community to Convent:The Collective Spiritual Life of Post-Reformation Englishwomen in Dorothy Arundell's Biography of John Cornelius
  • chapter 2 Essex Girls Abroad: Family Patronage and the Politicization of Convent Recruitment in the Seventeenth Century
  • chapter 3 Missing Members: Selection and Governance in the English Convents in Exile
  • part PART II Culture: Authorship and Authority
  • chapter 4 The Literary Lives of Nuns: Crafting Identities Through Exile
  • chapter 5 Naming Names: Chroniclers, Scribes and Editors of St Monica's Convent, Louvain, 1631-1906
  • chapter 6 Translating Lady Mary Percy: Authorship and Authority among the Brussels Benedictines
  • chapter 7 Barbara Constable's Advice for Confessors and the Tradition of Medieval Holy Women
  • chapter 8 Shakespeare's Sisters: Anon and the Authors in / Early Modern Convents
  • part PART III Culture: Patronage and Visual Culture
  • chapter 9 Petitioning for Patronage: An Illuminated Tale of Exile from Syon Abbey, Lisbon
  • chapter 10 Parlour, Court and Cloister: Musical Culture in English Convents during the Seventeenth Century
  • chapter 11 Cloistered Images: Representations of English Nuns, 1600-1800
  • part PART IV Identity
  • chapter 12 Archipelagic Identities in Europe: Irish Nuns in / English Convents
  • chapter 13 Divine Love and the Negotiation of Emotions in / Early Modern English Convents
  • chapter 14 Avoiding 'Rash and Imprudent Measures': English Nuns in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1801.

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