The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800 - Early Modern ‘Convents of Pleasure’

Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings - chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimo

List of contents

Contents: Introduction: touching nuns; In which Mrs Eyre protects the impressionable souls of her tender daughters; Becoming behaviour: two cases of sensational reading; Titillation and texture: the sixth sense of ’handsome handid nuns’; Of taste and tongue: ’a very slippery member’; Still small voices: sounds, sibilance and silences in early modern convents; Of smell and space: ’evaporating subjects’; Eagle-eyed nuns: envisioning vision in contemplative communities; Sensate certainty: a conclusion of sorts; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nicky Hallett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Summary

Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings - chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimo

Product details

• Authors: Nicky Hallett, Hallett Nicky
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032924632
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92463-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Religion: general, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism