Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700 - Suppression, Migration and Reintegration

The lives and experiences of Irish women religious highlight how an expanding nexus of female houses perpetuated European Counter-Reformation devotion in Ireland.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns

2. Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland

3. 'What difficultie a place is heare gotten for won to enter': Irish women religious in France, and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century

4. Irish nuns in Iberia: The Dominican convent of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso, Lisbon

5. Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-49

6. Cromwell and the cloister: female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-60

7. Restoration, revival and survival, 1660-1700

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the author

Bronagh Ann McShane

Summary

The lives and experiences of Irish women religious highlight how an expanding nexus of female houses perpetuated European Counter-Reformation devotion in Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Bronagh Ann McShane
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2022
• EAN: 9781783277308
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-730-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Irish Historical Monographs
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity