This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns'
During the first decade of the 16th century, says Lux-Sterritt (anglophone world studies, U. de Provence), the definition of feminine participation within the Catholic Church underwent tremendous tran
`The intorduction and essays provide nuanced and stimulating treatments of their topics...this volume promises to stimulate thought and debate.'---Claire Sahlin, Texas Woman's University, USAThis tim
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 a
