English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800
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Andrew Cichy
Augustinian Canonesses
Augustinian Convent
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Benedictine Convent
Bridgettine Convent
Bridgettine Nuns
Brussels Benedictine
Cambrai Benedictines
Carmen M. Mangion
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Claire Walker
Continental Convents
convent governance
early modern Catholicism
Early Modern Englishwomen
Early Modern Nuns
Elizabeth Patton
Elizabeth Perry
English Augustinian Convent
English Benedictine
English Benedictine Nuns
English Carmelites
English Catholic
English Catholic Exiles
English Convents
English Nunnery
English nuns cultural identity
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female authorship history
Genelle Gertz
Geoffrey Scott
Gravelines Poor Clares
Jaime Goodrich
Jenna D. Lay
Jesuit Confessors
Laurence Lux-Sterritt
Lay Sister
Lucy Knatchbull
Marie-Louise Coolahan
Mary Xaveria
Michael C. Questier
monastic patronage networks
Nicky Hallett
Philip III
post-reformation women
religious exile studies
Victoria Van Hyning
Product details
- ISBN 9781409450733
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 were not isolated and their contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile. During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated violence forced the convents back to England. This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first collection to focus solely on the English convents.
Caroline Bowden is Research Fellow and former Project Manager of the ’Who were the Nuns?’ project funded by the AHRC at Queen Mary, University of London, and has published a number of papers on women’s education and learning and the English convents in exile. James E. Kelly is post-doctoral fellow at Durham University’s Centre for Catholic Studies, Project Manager of the ’Nuns’ project at Queen Mary’s and researches post-Reformation Catholic history in Europe and Britain.
