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Allmighty God
Antwerp Annals
Author_Nicky Hallett
Bd Lady
Blessed Lady
Blessed Sacrament
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Choir Nuns
cloistered women's narratives
early modern convents
early modern manuscript analysis
English Catholic exile
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female religious autobiography
gendered spirituality studies
Incorrupt Body
Lay Sister
Lierre Annals
Margaret Wake
Mary Xaveria
Mother Mary Xaveria
Reverend Mother
seventeenth-century English nuns' life writing
St Winefrid
Teresa De Jesus
Ye Community
Ye House
Ye Monastery
Ye Morning
Ye Place
Ye Quire
Ye Rest
Ye Sisters
Ye World
Yt Ye
Product details
- ISBN 9780754606758
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that provides historical and cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives, their sources and their authors. Lives of Spirit draws upon several remarkable sets of papers compiled in enclosed convents between 1619 and 1794. These documents show that religious women developed an astute system of auto/biographical practice within a protean political situation, and that, even in exile and from within enclosure, they sought to shape a distinctive contribution to devotional change within a reforming church. This volume reveals how the women's Lives challenge, as well as affirm, notions of gendered spirituality, refiguring traditions of female life-writing that extend from Catherine of Siena (1347 - 80) through the work of the Carmelite reformer, Teresa of Avila (1515 - 82), into the later modern period. The newness of the material in this book allows a radical reappraisal of the self-representation of religious women and of paradigms of life-writing in, and beyond, the early modern period. This book is of significant interest to scholars interested in early modern women's writing, female spirituality, and auto/biography more widely as a genre.
Nicky Hallett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK. She co-founded and jointly directs a Centre for Gender, Sexuality & Writing. She has written several studies about early modern female religious communities, as well as work on Chaucer, contemporary literature, self-writing and gender.
