When the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Jean-Louis d'Elderen, published his edict (1690) supporting the re-establishment of strict enclosure in womens monasteries, feelings ran high amongst the Cistercians sisters who were still living in the countryside surrounding the diocese. During the course of the following two decades, the cloistered nuns went to great lengths to make their own idea of enclosure heard, thanks to the effective intervention of various networks where familial relations and the persuasive efforts of canonists combined to persuade the Episcopal authorities to come round to their way of thinking. At the same time, other religious women fervently announced their attachment to a strict enclosure, in spite of certain unfortunate inc...
Amiens's Saintes-Claires in the XVIIIth Century. The Amiens Clarisses still live in the XVIIIth cen...
International audienceIn the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the ...
La fin de l’Antiquité voit se développer un monachisme féminin qui se vit à la maison, pour des rais...
Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 160...
AbstractThe phenomenon of enclosure has been intimately linked to Nuns’ monasteries. During the Mode...
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...
International audienceLanguedoc Cistercian women religious have long been overlooked because of the ...
International audienceCould communities of nuns enjoy, as members of an exempt Order like Cîteaux, a...
International audienceThe present study challenges a judgment common among historians of the Cisterc...
International audienceThis paper was presented at the symposium held in 2011 in Paris at the initiat...
Through a reading of diverse sources—mainly female monastic writings and the archives of the judicia...
The phenomenon of seclusion and reclusion increases at the end of the XVIth century and during the X...
Saint-Sulpice-la-Forêt, a Breton women’s abbey of the Benedictine order, finds itself at the head of...
La vie des communautés de moniales repose sur une double réalité. Tout d’abord, une considération ma...
Amiens's Saintes-Claires in the XVIIIth Century. The Amiens Clarisses still live in the XVIIIth cen...
International audienceIn the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the ...
La fin de l’Antiquité voit se développer un monachisme féminin qui se vit à la maison, pour des rais...
Preserving action within the cloister : The compromise of the Toulouse Ursulines, 1604-1616 In 160...
AbstractThe phenomenon of enclosure has been intimately linked to Nuns’ monasteries. During the Mode...
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...
International audienceLanguedoc Cistercian women religious have long been overlooked because of the ...
International audienceCould communities of nuns enjoy, as members of an exempt Order like Cîteaux, a...
International audienceThe present study challenges a judgment common among historians of the Cisterc...
International audienceThis paper was presented at the symposium held in 2011 in Paris at the initiat...
Through a reading of diverse sources—mainly female monastic writings and the archives of the judicia...
The phenomenon of seclusion and reclusion increases at the end of the XVIth century and during the X...
Saint-Sulpice-la-Forêt, a Breton women’s abbey of the Benedictine order, finds itself at the head of...
La vie des communautés de moniales repose sur une double réalité. Tout d’abord, une considération ma...
Amiens's Saintes-Claires in the XVIIIth Century. The Amiens Clarisses still live in the XVIIIth cen...
International audienceIn the first half of the seventeenth century, more than sixty years after the ...
La fin de l’Antiquité voit se développer un monachisme féminin qui se vit à la maison, pour des rais...