Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries
(Part of the Early Modern History: Society and Culture Series)
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This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the nuns' membership of both the English Catholic community and the continental Catholic Church, it argues that despite strict monastic enclosure and exile, they nevertheless engaged actively in the spiritual and political controversies of their day. The book will add much to our understanding of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0333753704
ISBN13:9780333753705
Release Date:November 2002
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:247 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 9.0"
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