English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century - Living Spirituality

Provides the first detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the English Benedictine communities in exile during the seventeenth century, looking at their lived experiences, emotions and senses in religious life.

List of contents

Introduction
1 The contemplative ideal of dying to the world
2 When spiritual and secular families overlap
3 The secular concerns of contemplatives
4 The missionary spirit of enclosed nuns
5 Taming worldly emotions and appetites
6 Divine love, an emotional panacea?
7 What place for the senses in contemplative life?
8 Illness, death and beyond: the body as witness
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Laurence Lux-Sterritt is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Aix-Marseille University, France and a member of the Research Centre on the English-Speaking World (LERMA)

Summary

Provides the first detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the English Benedictine communities in exile during the seventeenth century, looking at their lived experiences, emotions and senses in religious life. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Lux Sterritt, Laurence Lux-Sterritt
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2017
• EAN: 9781526110022
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1002-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Ce
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works