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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range of previously unpublished writings-chronicles, confessions,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.
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.
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.
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.
Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this
book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two
seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in
the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set
of personal writing that reveals unprecedented detail about their
devotional lives and spiritual states before, during and after
exorcism. Unlike other similar cases, here the women write for
themselves; for the first time in 350 years this book allows their
voices - and their silences - to resound in all their vibrancy. An
extensive introduction discusses the politics of piety and
possession at a time when exorcism had become increasingly
contentious, amidst conflicting claims for rival church reform. The
book includes both autobiographical and biographical material,
written by the nuns and about them, and casting new light on
processes of female self-writing at just the time when the 'modern
subject' is often said to have emerged.
Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and
about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the
women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy,
with an extensive introduction that provides historical and
cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives, their sources
and their authors. Lives of Spirit draws upon several remarkable
sets of papers compiled in enclosed convents between 1619 and 1794.
These documents show that religious women developed an astute
system of auto/biographical practice within a protean political
situation, and that, even in exile and from within enclosure, they
sought to shape a distinctive contribution to devotional change
within a reforming church. This volume reveals how the women's
Lives challenge, as well as affirm, notions of gendered
spirituality, refiguring traditions of female life-writing that
extend from Catherine of Siena (1347 - 80) through the work of the
Carmelite reformer, Teresa of Avila (1515 - 82), into the later
modern period. The newness of the material in this book allows a
radical reappraisal of the self-representation of religious women
and of paradigms of life-writing in, and beyond, the early modern
period. This book is of significant interest to scholars interested
in early modern women's writing, female spirituality, and
auto/biography more widely as a genre.
Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this
book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two
seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in
the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set
of personal writing that reveals unprecedented detail about their
devotional lives and spiritual states before, during and after
exorcism. Unlike other similar cases, here the women write for
themselves; for the first time in 350 years this book allows their
voices - and their silences - to resound in all their vibrancy. An
extensive introduction discusses the politics of piety and
possession at a time when exorcism had become increasingly
contentious, amidst conflicting claims for rival church reform. The
book includes both autobiographical and biographical material,
written by the nuns and about them, and casting new light on
processes of female self-writing at just the time when the 'modern
subject' is often said to have emerged.
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