Add to ORKGSeventeenth-century female rigorists have received little archival study since the nineteenth century, when they were at once mythologized as beautiful luminaries or 'precieuses' who monopolized the salons, and reduced to the 'Belles Amies' of the Jansenist convent of Port-Royal. This study attempts to show that they have been misinterpreted. It shows that by neglecting the correspondence of these women, historians have missed some of the richest descriptions of how female piety evolved after the devot generation pioneered the Catholic Reformation in France. This thesis proposes that within the seventeenth-century Parisian rigorist movement there was an aristocratic friendship network comprised of women who socialized and worshipped toget...
Chapter in Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. One example of thi...
Between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution, the story of the Saintes Abbey is worth bein...
This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a w...
Barbara Diefendorf argues that Vincentian piety arose from the spirituality evoked by the late sixte...
This thesis demonstrates that Catholic gentrywomen were central to the direction and evolution of p...
Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic fa...
Why was an ideal of elite women's virtue promoted in London c. 1580-1630, and why was it based on th...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France...
Parisians used the ad hoc processions of their patron Saint Genevieve to remedy public agricultural ...
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, four different spiritual biographers wrote ...
Among the figures in Post-Reformation France who greatly influenced the development of Catholic spir...
In the thirteenth century, the first mulieres religiosae founded a spiritual phenomenon whose ambigu...
This thesis reassesses the evidence for the English woman of spirit, Christina of Markyate, as a cas...
Despite the growing scholarship on early modern English nuns, little analysis has been done on their...
Chapter in Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. One example of thi...
Between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution, the story of the Saintes Abbey is worth bein...
This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a w...
Barbara Diefendorf argues that Vincentian piety arose from the spirituality evoked by the late sixte...
This thesis demonstrates that Catholic gentrywomen were central to the direction and evolution of p...
Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic fa...
Why was an ideal of elite women's virtue promoted in London c. 1580-1630, and why was it based on th...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France...
Parisians used the ad hoc processions of their patron Saint Genevieve to remedy public agricultural ...
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, four different spiritual biographers wrote ...
Among the figures in Post-Reformation France who greatly influenced the development of Catholic spir...
In the thirteenth century, the first mulieres religiosae founded a spiritual phenomenon whose ambigu...
This thesis reassesses the evidence for the English woman of spirit, Christina of Markyate, as a cas...
Despite the growing scholarship on early modern English nuns, little analysis has been done on their...
Chapter in Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. One example of thi...
Between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution, the story of the Saintes Abbey is worth bein...
This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a w...