English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality

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Laurence Lux-Sterritt Anne Dunan-Page

English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century

Living Spirituality

Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Anne Dunan-Page

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English

Manchester University Press
10 March 2017

British & Irish history; History of religion; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Gender studies: women

Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns' personal experiences, illustrating the tensions between theory and practice in the ideal of being dead to the world. It shows how Benedictine convents were both cut-off and enclosed yet very much in touch with the religious and political developments at home, but also proposes a different approach to the history of nuns, with a study of emotions and the senses in the cloister, delving into the textual analysis of the nuns' personal and communal documents to explore aspect of a lived spirituality, when the body which so often hindered the spirit, at times enabled spiritual experience. -- .

By: Laurence Lux-Sterritt
Series edited by: Anne Dunan-Page
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 558g
ISBN: 9781526110022
ISBN 10: 1526110024
Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 March 2017
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurence Lux-Sterritt is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Aix-Marseille University, France and a member of the Research Centre on the English-Speaking World (LERMA)

Reviews for English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality

'This is a patiently written, accessible book that pleasingly foregrounds the religious experience of exiled english nuns; its focus on one order a particular strength rather than indicative of any narrowness. In short, it is a wholly welcome addition to the recent historiographical movement.' James E. Kelly,Durham University, Catholic Historical Review Vol 103, no 4, Autumn 2017 -- .