Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe

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English Convents in France and the Low Countries, Early Modern History: Society and Culture

ISBN: 0333753704
ISBN 13: 9780333753705
Autor: Walker, C
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 247 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2002
Auflage: 1/2002
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

First detailed scholarly study of English convents in Europe since 1914Based on detailed research from newly uncovered private monastic archives, archdiocesan archives and private family papersImportant contribution to current interest in the history of European nunsA detailed statistical analysis of convent life discussed within a wider political, economic, social and religious context

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Beschreibung

This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the nuns' membership of both the English Catholic community and the continental Catholic Church, it argues that despite strict monastic enclosure and exile, they nevertheless engaged actively in the spiritual and political controversies of their day. The book will add much to our understanding of women's power in early modern Europe, and offer an insight into a previously ignored section of English society.

Autorenporträt

CLAIRE WALKER lectures in early modern European history at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published several articles on the post-Reformation English convents in leading journals and collections of essays.

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