Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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From Penitence to Charity
Author: Barbara B. Diefendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198025580
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the institutional and spiritual revival known as the Catholic Reformation. Focusing on Paris, where fifty new religious congregations for women were established in as many years, it examines women's active role as founders and patrons of religious communities, as spiritual leaders within these communities, and as organizers of innovative forms of charitable assistance to the poor. Rejecting the too common view that the Catholic Reformation was a male-dominated movement whose principal impact on women was to control and confine them, the book shows how pious women played an instrumental role, working alongside--and sometimes in advance of--male reformers. At the same time, it establishes a new understanding of the chronology and character of France's Catholic Reformation by locating the movement's origins in a penitential spirituality rooted in the agonies of religious war. It argues that a powerful desire to appease the wrath of God through acts of heroic asceticism born of the wars did not subside with peace but, rather, found new outlets in the creation of austere, contemplative convents. Admiration for saintly ascetics prompted new vocations, and convents multiplied, as pious laywomen rushed to fund houses where, enjoying the special rights accorded founders, they might enter the cloister and participate in convent life. Penitential enthusiasm inevitably waned, while new social and economic tensions encouraged women to direct their piety toward different ends. By the 1630s, charitable service was supplanting penitential asceticism as the dominant spiritual mode. Capitalizing on the Council of Trent's call to catechize an ignorant laity, pious women founded innovative new congregations to aid less favored members of their sex and established lay confraternities to serve society's outcasts and the poor. Their efforts to provide war relief during the Fronde in particular deserve recognition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198025580
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the institutional and spiritual revival known as the Catholic Reformation. Focusing on Paris, where fifty new religious congregations for women were established in as many years, it examines women's active role as founders and patrons of religious communities, as spiritual leaders within these communities, and as organizers of innovative forms of charitable assistance to the poor. Rejecting the too common view that the Catholic Reformation was a male-dominated movement whose principal impact on women was to control and confine them, the book shows how pious women played an instrumental role, working alongside--and sometimes in advance of--male reformers. At the same time, it establishes a new understanding of the chronology and character of France's Catholic Reformation by locating the movement's origins in a penitential spirituality rooted in the agonies of religious war. It argues that a powerful desire to appease the wrath of God through acts of heroic asceticism born of the wars did not subside with peace but, rather, found new outlets in the creation of austere, contemplative convents. Admiration for saintly ascetics prompted new vocations, and convents multiplied, as pious laywomen rushed to fund houses where, enjoying the special rights accorded founders, they might enter the cloister and participate in convent life. Penitential enthusiasm inevitably waned, while new social and economic tensions encouraged women to direct their piety toward different ends. By the 1630s, charitable service was supplanting penitential asceticism as the dominant spiritual mode. Capitalizing on the Council of Trent's call to catechize an ignorant laity, pious women founded innovative new congregations to aid less favored members of their sex and established lay confraternities to serve society's outcasts and the poor. Their efforts to provide war relief during the Fronde in particular deserve recognition.
A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art & Literature, with the Dates of the First & Last Editions, & the Price, Size & Publisher's Name of Each Book
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts
Author: William Chambers
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730)
Author: James R. Farr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A sociocultural analysis of the relationships among law, religion, and sexual morality in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation, this book is divided into two, interrelated parts: the world of prescription and the world of practice. The first part examines the construction of authority, focusing primarily upon Burgundy's dominant elite legal community. The second part of the book examines the deployment of authority, and its appropriation by French men and women. The new moral order focused on sexuality and the imposition of this order involved a legal contest over the disposition of bodies, both male and female, be they priests, courting couples, victims of seduction or rape, or prostitutes. James Farr's book offers an unusually fertile approach to study the link between sexuality and criminality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195358384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A sociocultural analysis of the relationships among law, religion, and sexual morality in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation, this book is divided into two, interrelated parts: the world of prescription and the world of practice. The first part examines the construction of authority, focusing primarily upon Burgundy's dominant elite legal community. The second part of the book examines the deployment of authority, and its appropriation by French men and women. The new moral order focused on sexuality and the imposition of this order involved a legal contest over the disposition of bodies, both male and female, be they priests, courting couples, victims of seduction or rape, or prostitutes. James Farr's book offers an unusually fertile approach to study the link between sexuality and criminality.
The Edinburgh Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CITICAL JOURNAL
Author: THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL
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Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Pages : 672
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The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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