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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Convents"”.
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… with the decline of Jacobitism, the exiled convents played their part in turn in reconfiguring English Protestant images of the Catholic threat, a process that paved the way for the return of most of these communities in flight from the Jacobins of the French Revolution. This thesis thus not …
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Celibate pleasures: convents, asexuality, and women's agency in British literature, 1660-1760
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Convents Clausura and Cloisters Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome and Latium
… scenario. While single case studies on Roman convents do exist, there has been no attempt to investigate female religious patronage in a broader artistic, political and social context. This doctoral research will examine female religious patronage in Rome and Latium during the thirteenth and …
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Of Manses and Convents: Violence, Memory, and Identity in Casablanca la bella by Fernando Vallejo and En el lejero by Evelio Rosero Diago
… in which the diegetic spaces of the manses and convents as portrayed in two Colombian novels, Casablanca la bella (2013) by Fernando Vallejo and En el lejero (2007) by Evelio Rosero Diago serve as scenarios for the representation of the violences that pervade contemporary Colombian society. It …
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Nuns' stories, nuns' voices: Resistance at the margins of patriarchal ideology
… different historical representations of nuns and convents and emphasizes the gap between the way nuns and convents are represented by patriarchal historical texts and the way they are reinterpreted by feminist historians as they take into account female subjectivity.
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… Dominican nunneries closely linked to the convents of San Marco in Florence and San Domenico in Pisa, with particular attention to Corpus Christi and Santi Giacomo e Filippo in Genoa, Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, San Vincenzo in Prato, and San Domenico in Lucca. It evaluates the …
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Empreintes architecturales de femmes sur les routes de l'Europe : étude des couvents des annonciades célestes fondés avant 1800
… the first studies of the architecture of convents in Modern Europe began only twenty years ago. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, monastic institutions multiplied, occupying a significant area within the cities of Catholic Europe, so much so that historians now speak of …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… Catholic women who became religious sisters in convents on the Continent. These women produced writings detailing their lives, community, and sense of self which are bound up in the larger theological and social debates of the time. In turn, these women were inserted within the larger …
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CREATING SPACES OF THIRD GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN PORTRAIT PRINTS OF MEXICAN COLONIAL NUNS
… interiores were confessions written by nuns in convents under the order of their confessors. These vidas served as the basis for biographies of the sisters, which were written and distributed by confessors. Vidas frequently included printed portraits of the subjects on whom they were based. One …
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Artistic Achievements of Convent Women in Renaissance Italy: with case studies in Venice and Prato
… heightened presence of highborn girls in Italian convents seems to correspond with a concurrent development in female monastic artistic production. This point will be demonstrated in my study through analysis of two objects: the illustrated convent chronicle of Santa Maria delle Vergini (c. 1523), …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… the emergence and proliferation of plays about convents, a French revolutionary subgenre based on the representation of monastic costume, setting, and characters. In the Old Regime, the theatrical representation of Roman Catholic clerics and garb was prohibited from the public theater. After …
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THE FIGURE OF THE WAYWARD NUN IN LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: THE AMBIGUOUS PORTRAITS OF THE ARCHPRIEST OF HITA'S DONA GAROZA AND CHAUCER'S MADAME EGLENTYNE (ENGLAND, SPAIN)
… of the visitation reports by the bishops of the convents in their dioceses. Different from the studies offering a general picture of the life of the professed woman in the Middle Ages, the emphasis here will be on the evidence of immodest or dishonorable behavior in the nunnery observed through …
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Translocating Devotion to Female Saints in England through Liturgical Prescription and Practice, c. 1330–1500
… of the Virgin Mary in individual monasteries and convents, and St Zita of Lucca, or St Sitha as she was known in England, among the laity with monastic support. The results were different for each saint’s feast, but they all resulted in multi-local configurations in which the saint was venerated …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… modern Germany. The perpetuation of Protestant convents into the seventeenth century is only briefly documented by historians who focus instead on the religious experience of women in Germany during and directly following the Reformation. Catholic examples of female piety will contribute to the …
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The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece
… to investigate the history of the individual convents and eventually to form a comprehensive picture of the installation of these Orders in Greece. In particular, I have focused on the missionary and Unionist goals of the Orders in Greece, their structure and organisation, their interaction …
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Tracing the Collective Endeavors: The Cultural Discourses of Women Printmakers Throughout History
… during the Middle Ages with monasteries and convents, where artisans created religious works of art as a way to teach illiterate audiences and also to adorn churches and cathedrals. However, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the concept of the collective workshop grew out of …
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The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort's Editing of the 'Decretals of Gregory IX' (1234)
… for having committed adultery - to enter convents set up for former prostitutes (X 3.32.19, Gaudemus in Domino). In Raymond's hands this became a general recommendation that all women convicted of adultery should enter into convents to perform lifetime penance. Aside from legal content, …
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A Preliminiary Survey of the Life of the Most Reverend Joesph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. First Bishop of San Francisco
… of Jesus and Mary keep a current record in their convents of events in their community life which are worthy to be remembered. The Chronicles of the College of the Holy Names in Oakland begins with the coming of the Sisters from Montreal In 1868. In Its record of arrivals and departures, …
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AUTHORITATIVE LETTERS JEANNE DE CHANTAL AND FEMININE AUTHORITY IN THE EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The early modern period of a time of religious renewal and upheaval that resulted in a wealth of new religious orders, particularly those for women. During this period of change, Catholic women responded to the threat of Protestantism by adapting the convent to their own needs. One of the most …