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Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700
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JOINT WINNER: 2023 National University of Ireland's Publication Prize in Irish HistoryHONORABLE MENTION: 2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (USA) Book AwardsSHORT-LISTED: Royal Historical Society 2023 Whitfield Book Prize LONG-LISTED: 2023 Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC) Book Award
This book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways.
McShane explores the experiences of Irish women who travelled to the Continent in pursuit of formal religious vocational formation, covering both those accommodated in English and European continental convents' and those in the Irish convents established in Spanish Flanders and the Iberian Peninsula. Further, this book discusses the revival of religious establishments for women in Ireland from 1629 and outlines the links between these new convents and the Irish foundations abroad.
Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.
Product details
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2022-10-18
Publication Date:
2022-10-18
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1783277300
ISBN13:
9781783277308
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
649 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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