International audienceIn 1604, the Ursulines of Toulouse worked uncloistered to catechize local girls. Yet in 1609, they decided to enter the monastic model and become cloistered. Documents indicate that, although this decision may appear paradoxical for religious women with an apostolic vocation, it made perfect sense for the Ursulines. Far from experiencing clausura as a burden, the Toulousain nuns celebrated it as a means of preserving their vocation intact. In 1616, they gained the safety accorded by religious status and negotiated a special permission to open their classrooms daily to extern pupils. This configuration allowed them to conjugate their catechizing vocation with the stability of a recognised convent, and it enabled the Urs...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
Durant l’époque moderne, dans les pays catholiques, le nombre de religieuses (en majorité issues des...
International audienceIn the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the ...
International audienceIn 1604, the Ursulines of Toulouse worked uncloistered to catechize local girl...
Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 160...
International audienceIn 1609 the Ursuline congrégées of Toulouse sent a representative to Rome, req...
International audienceLes premières décennies de la Contre-Réforme témoignent de l'engouement fémini...
The convents of Ursuline nuns in Léon and Cornouaille exemplify one particular side of the Breton re...
When the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Jean-Louis d'Elderen, published his edict (1690) supporting the re-...
Le débarquement des ursulines à Québec en 1639 ouvre une histoire de translation monastique à traver...
Bien que l’on connaisse les pratiques de gestion seigneuriale des communautés masculines de la Nouve...
En renouvelant les discours sur la sécularisation des religieuses, les réformateurs protestants ouvr...
The monasteries of Ursulines, protected from their clausura, form true microcosms, where sisters and...
This article examines the Ursuline community in Bordeaux, France between 1606 and 1625. It integrate...
The diocese of Toulouse, located in Languedoc and Gascony, suffered significant destruction during t...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
Durant l’époque moderne, dans les pays catholiques, le nombre de religieuses (en majorité issues des...
International audienceIn the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the ...
International audienceIn 1604, the Ursulines of Toulouse worked uncloistered to catechize local girl...
Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 160...
International audienceIn 1609 the Ursuline congrégées of Toulouse sent a representative to Rome, req...
International audienceLes premières décennies de la Contre-Réforme témoignent de l'engouement fémini...
The convents of Ursuline nuns in Léon and Cornouaille exemplify one particular side of the Breton re...
When the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Jean-Louis d'Elderen, published his edict (1690) supporting the re-...
Le débarquement des ursulines à Québec en 1639 ouvre une histoire de translation monastique à traver...
Bien que l’on connaisse les pratiques de gestion seigneuriale des communautés masculines de la Nouve...
En renouvelant les discours sur la sécularisation des religieuses, les réformateurs protestants ouvr...
The monasteries of Ursulines, protected from their clausura, form true microcosms, where sisters and...
This article examines the Ursuline community in Bordeaux, France between 1606 and 1625. It integrate...
The diocese of Toulouse, located in Languedoc and Gascony, suffered significant destruction during t...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
Durant l’époque moderne, dans les pays catholiques, le nombre de religieuses (en majorité issues des...
International audienceIn the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the ...