Abstract The foundation of new English convents in exile placed demands on the early leaders regarding the furnishing of appropriate texts for the religious life for women at a time of limited resources and strict controls over printing Catholic texts in English. This article examines challenges facing the convents and external influences on the choice…
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British Catholic History is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, Historical Studies of British Isles, Early Modern Women Writers.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, British Catholic History 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Reformation and Early Modern Christianity Historical Studies of British Isles Early Modern Women Writers Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies American Constitutional Law and Politics |
| ISSN | 2055-7973 |
| h-index | 8 |
| i10-index | 6 |
| Total citations | 357 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Oxford |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org |
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This essay illuminates a little-known chapter in the history of English Catholicism by examining the controversies among the English Benedictine convent at Brussels between 1620 and 1623. The disputes began as a simple clash of personalities between Abbess Mary Percy and the house’s ordinary confessor Robert Chambers, and they culminated in allegations by pro-Jesuit nuns…
Convent autobiography took many forms. We find it in conversion narratives and vidas por mandato , as well as in less obvious places, including chronicles, trans-lations, poetry, saints’ lives and the myriad forms of governance documents that structured convent life. Sometimes nuns wrote under their own names, but frequently they composed anonymously. How do we…
This article explores the possibility that poems preserved in the recusant coterie collection, Tixall Poetry may include verses written both by and for the Augustinian canonesses of St Monica’s, Louvain, and provide evidence for the cultural life of the convent. It then turns to a consideration of evidence for the cultivation of music, and argues…
This article explores how communities of female religious within the English sphere of influence in Ireland negotiated their survival, firstly in the aftermath of the Henrician dissolution campaigns of the late 1530s and 1540s and thereafter down to the early 1640s. It begins by examining the strategies devised by women religious in order to circumvent…