Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 1604, the Ursuline congregation of Toulouse refused the monastic model to focus upon the catechising of local girls. Yet, in 1609, the "congrégées" decided to become cloistered nuns. What led them to this seemingly paradoxical decision ? At a time when their female apostolic mission was a stake, the Ursulines embraced claustration as a means to preserve their vocation. By 1616, they obtained papal permission to open the convent doors and teach day classes to externs ; in this way, they allied their catechising vocation with monastic stability and became one of the most renowned religious congregations of "Ancien Régime" France.En 1604, la congré...
International audienceThe present study challenges a judgment common among historians of the Cisterc...
International audienceThe foundation of congregations of priests in 17th century France (Oratorians,...
The Concordat of Bologna and the Council of Trento lead to a major change in the appointment of the ...
Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 160...
International audienceIn 1604, the Ursulines of Toulouse worked uncloistered to catechize local girl...
International audienceIn 1609 the Ursuline congrégées of Toulouse sent a representative to Rome, req...
When the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Jean-Louis d'Elderen, published his edict (1690) supporting the re-...
Alexis Grélois, The Cistercians and the struggle against the southern French heresies under Innocent...
The convents of Ursuline nuns in Léon and Cornouaille exemplify one particular side of the Breton re...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
In the reformed England of the seventeenth century, asserting one’s Catholic faith was a militant ge...
International audienceLanguedoc Cistercian women religious have long been overlooked because of the ...
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...
La vie des communautés de moniales repose sur une double réalité. Tout d’abord, une considération ma...
International audienceThe present study challenges a judgment common among historians of the Cisterc...
International audienceThe foundation of congregations of priests in 17th century France (Oratorians,...
The Concordat of Bologna and the Council of Trento lead to a major change in the appointment of the ...
Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 160...
International audienceIn 1604, the Ursulines of Toulouse worked uncloistered to catechize local girl...
International audienceIn 1609 the Ursuline congrégées of Toulouse sent a representative to Rome, req...
When the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Jean-Louis d'Elderen, published his edict (1690) supporting the re-...
Alexis Grélois, The Cistercians and the struggle against the southern French heresies under Innocent...
The convents of Ursuline nuns in Léon and Cornouaille exemplify one particular side of the Breton re...
French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal ...
In the reformed England of the seventeenth century, asserting one’s Catholic faith was a militant ge...
International audienceLanguedoc Cistercian women religious have long been overlooked because of the ...
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...
La vie des communautés de moniales repose sur une double réalité. Tout d’abord, une considération ma...
International audienceThe present study challenges a judgment common among historians of the Cisterc...
International audienceThe foundation of congregations of priests in 17th century France (Oratorians,...
The Concordat of Bologna and the Council of Trento lead to a major change in the appointment of the ...