The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800 : Communities, Culture and Identity (Hardcover)

Introduction Part I Communities 1 From Community to Convent: The Collective Spiritual Life of Post-Reformation Englishwomen in Dorothy Arundell’s Biography of John Cornelius 2 Essex Girls Abroad: Family Patronage and the Politicization of Convent Recruitment in the Seventeenth Century 3 Missing Members: Selection and Governance in the English Convents in Exile Part II Culture: Authorship and Authority 4 The Literary Lives of Nuns: Crafting Identities Through Exile 5 Naming Names: Chroniclers, Scribes and Editors of St Monica’s Convent, Louvain, 1631?1906 6 Translating Lady Mary Percy: Authorship and Authority among the Brussels Benedictines 7 Barbara Constable’s Advice for Confessors and the Tradition of Medieval Holy Women 8 Shakespeare’s Sisters: Anon and the Authors in Early Modern Convents Part III Culture: Patronage and Visual Culture 9 Petitioning for Patronage: An Illuminated Tale of Exile from Syon Abbey, Lisbon 10 Parlour, Court and Cloister: Musical Culture in English Convents during the Seventeenth Century 11 Cloistered Images: Representations of English Nuns, 1600?1800 Part IV Identity 12 Archipelagic Identities in Europe: Irish Nuns in English Convents 13 Divine Love and the Negotiation of Emotions in Early Modern English Convents 14 Avoiding ‘Rash and Imprudent Measures’: English Nuns in Revolutionary Paris, 1789?1801