Author: Adam Hamilton (O.S.B.)
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Dom Adam Hamilton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Adam Hamilton (O.S.B.)
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: James E. Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317034023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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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.

Author: Caroline Bowden
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040233929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource.

Author: Peter Guilday
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Category : Benelux countries
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: Nicky Hallett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317016335
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings-chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimony of various kinds-to explore and challenge assumptions about sensory origins. Author Nicky Hallett undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation of a range of documents compiled by English nuns in exile in northern Europe. She analyzes vivid accounts they left of the spaces they inhabited and of their sensory architecture: the smells of corridors, of diseased and dying bodies, the sights and sounds of civic and community life, its textures and tastes; their understanding of it in the light of devotional discipline. This is material culture in the raw, providing access to a well-defined locale and the conditions that shaped sensory experience and understanding. Hallett examines the relationships between somatic and religious enclosure, and the role of the senses in devotional discipline and practice, considering the ways in which the women adapted to the austerities of convent life after childhoods in domestic households. She considers the enduring effects of habitus, in Bourdieu's terms the residue of socialised subjectivity which was (or was not) transferred to a contemplative career. To this discussion, she injects literary and cultural comparisons, considering inter alia how writers of fiction, and of domestic and devotional conduct books, represent the senses, and how the nuns' own reading shaped their personal knowledge. The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800 opens fresh comparative perspectives on the Catholic domestic household as well as the convent, and on relationships between English and European philosophy, rhetorical, medical and devotional discourse.

Author: Adam Hamilton (O.S.B.)
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Dom Adam Hamilton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Adam Hamilton (O.S.B.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 277

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