Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries

Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries
ISBN-10
0230595545
ISBN-13
9780230595545
Category
History
Pages
247
Language
English
Published
2002-11-05
Publisher
Springer
Author
C. Walker

Description

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.

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