English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century : Living Spirituality
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
ISBN-10
1526110024
ISBN-13
9781526110022
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 10th, 2017
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
526 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 22.30 x 2.80 cms
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Provides the first detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the English Benedictine communities in exile during the seventeenth century, looking at their lived experiences, emotions and senses in religious life. -- .
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'' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns'' personal experiences, illustrating the tensions between theory and practice in the ideal of being dead to the world. It shows how Benedictine convents were both cut-off and enclosed yet very much in touch with the religious and political developments at home, but also proposes a different approach to the history of nuns, with a study of emotions and the senses in the cloister, delving into the textual analysis of the nuns'' personal and communal documents to explore aspect of a lived spirituality, when the body which so often hindered the spirit, at times enabled spiritual experience.
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