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Zusatztext Largely excluded from popular historical memory thanks to their gender and religious vows, this book recovers the stories of the nuns who worked alongside Florence Nightingale. Contextualizing their role during the Crimean War, it shows their importance within the development of nursing and the role of women in society. Informationen zum Autor Terry Tastard is Fellow at the Edward Cadbury Centre for Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham, UK. He is also a priest of the Diocese of Westminster, UK and teaches in the seminary in Chelsea. Previous academic affiliations include Research Associate at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK and teaching at King's College London, UK. He is the author of Ronald Knox and English Catholicism (2009). Vorwort A comprehensive examination of the role played by the nuns who nursed with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Zusammenfassung Infectious disease, wounded and dying soldiers, and a shortage of supplies were the daily realities faced by the nuns who nursed with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. This study documents their involvement in the conflict and how the nuns bore witness to the effects of carnage and official indifference, in many cases traumatized as a result. This book reflects on the initiative and courage shown by the nuns and how their actions can be viewed as part of a wider movement among women in the mid-19th century to find fulfilment and assert control in their own lives. Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War also sheds light on how critics at the time accused many of the nuns of being secret agents of the Catholic Church who preyed on vulnerable soldier patients; there was a campaign in parliament to regulate and control convents. Terry Tastard shows how the nuns attempted to neutralize this anti-Catholicism, as well as charting the participation of Anglican nuns who had just begun an astonishing project to revive the religious life in the Church of England. Finally the book reveals new insights into Florence Nightingale’s relationships with the nuns who nursed with her in Crimea and how these experiences impacted Nightingale’s own perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgementsCitations and abbreviationsA note on names and terminologyIntroduction1. ‘No use for angels without hands’2. The road to the east3. Winter ordeal4. Vocation and resistance5. Irish nuns at Koulali6. Balaclava battleground7. Ireland: Return and aftermath8. England: Return and aftermath9. ‘It was no time to save oneself’10. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex...
