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An invaluable collection of primary sources for the study of
eighteenth-century convent life. Between 1728 and 1744 the Catholic
lawyer Mannock Strickland (1673-1744) acted as agent for English
nuns living on the Continent, including St Monica's, Louvain, the
Brussels Dominicans and the Dunkirk Benedictines. Most convent
archives perished at the French Revolution, but Strickland's papers
survived in the archives of Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire,
offering a unique insight into the workings of English convents.
These extraordinary documents reveal the reality of exile for a
group of formidable yet vulnerable women, "doubly dead" to English
law. Two hundred letters tell stories of hardship, isolation,
severe winters, war, starvation, Jacobite intrigue and
international finance. They show that convent bursars became
skilled at playing international exchange markets yet remained at
the mercy of unscrupulous investors. The letters are presented here
with full notes; a thorough introduction sets theletters, cash day
books, bills of exchange and other documents in context. Richard G.
Williams is Librarian and Archivist of Mapledurham House; he has
also held senior posts at the University of Warwick, Imperial
College London, Birkbeck College London and at Yale University.
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.
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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4 (Hardcover)
Caroline Bowden, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder, James E. Kelly, Richard G Williams, Carmen M. Mangion, …
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R1,472
Discovery Miles 14 720
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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.
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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 6 (Hardcover)
Caroline Bowden, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder, James E. Kelly, Richard G Williams, Carmen M. Mangion, …
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R3,707
R1,596
Discovery Miles 15 960
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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.
This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students
presents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ocean
circulation and how it drives and controls marine biogeochemistry
and biological productivity at a global scale. Background chapters
on ocean physics, chemistry and biology provide students with the
tools to examine the range of large-scale physical and dynamic
phenomena that control the ocean carbon cycle and its interaction
with the atmosphere. Throughout the text observational data is
integrated with basic physical theory to address cutting-edge
research questions in ocean biogeochemistry. Simple theoretical
models, data plots and schematic illustrations summarise key
results and connect the physical theory to real observations.
Advanced mathematics is provided in boxes and appendices where it
can be drawn on to assist with the worked examples and homework
exercises available online. Further reading lists for each chapter
and a comprehensive glossary provide students and instructors with
a complete learning package.
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