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The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800 - Communities, Culture and Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800 - Communities, Culture and Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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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.
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