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Redefining Female Religious Life - French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Redefining Female Religious Life - French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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This short study offers a contribution to the flourishing debate on
post-Reformation female piety. In an effort to avoid excessive
polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing
it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, it analyses
the reasons which led early-modern women to found new congregations
with active vocations. Were these novel communities born out of
their founders' rejection of the conventual model? Through the
comparative analysis of two congregations which became, in
seventeenth-century France and England, the embodiment of women's
efforts to become actively involved in the Catholic Reformation,
this book offers a nuanced interpretation of female religious life
and particularly of the relationship between cloistered tradition
and aposotolic vocations. Despite the differences in their national
political and religious backgrounds, both the French Ursulines and
the Institute of English Ladies shared the same aim to revitalise
the links between the Catholic faith and the people, reaching out
of the cloister and into the world by educating girls who would
later become wives and mothers. This study suggests that these
pioneering Catholic women, though in breach of Tridentine decrees,
did not turn their backs on contemplative piety: although both the
French Ursulines and the English Ladies undertook work which had
hitherto been the preserve religious men, they were motivated by
their desire to help the Church rather than by a wish to liberate
women from what eighteenth-century writers later perceived as the
shackles of conventual obedience. It is argued that the founders of
new, uncloistered congregations were embracing vocations which they
construed as personals sacrifices; they followed the arduous path
'mixed life' in an act of self-abnegation and chose apostolic work
as their early-modern reinterpretation of medieval asceticism.
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