Undermining Obedience in Absolutist France
Author : Daniella J. Kostroun
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Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : France
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Author : Daniella J. Kostroun
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : France
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Author : Jodi Bilinkoff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501721003
In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff explores the ways in which clerics related to those female penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern age. Bilinkoff finds that confessional relations and the texts that document them reveal much about gender and social values. She uses life narratives, primarily from Spain, but also from France, Italy, Portugal, Spanish America, and French Canada, to examine the ways in which clerics presented female penitents as exemplary, and how they constructed their own identities around their interactions with exceptional women. These multilayered texts, she suggests, offer compelling accounts of individuals caught up in the pursuit of holiness, and provide a key to understanding the resilience of Catholic culture in an age of religious change and conflict.
Author : Mita Choudhury
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501726994
Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families, conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and sexuality.The cloister operated as a symbol of despotism, the equivalent of the Sultan's seraglio or the King's Bastille. Before 1770, lawyers and magistrates praised nuns as the personification of virtuous Christian women, often victims vulnerable to those who would use them to further their own political ends. After 1770, men of letters evaluated nuns according to more secular norms, and concluded that the convent had no purpose in society, except as a reminder of the problems inherent in the Old Regime. Choudhury elaborates on how nuns were not always passive entities, mere objects to be shaped by the political needs of others. But because they relied on men in order to make their voices heard, the place of women religious in the public sphere was a complex one based on negotiations between female action and male subjectivity. During the French Revolution, whatever support they had enjoyed was lost as republicans and moderates began to see nuns as potentially disruptive to the social order, family life, and revolutionary values.
Author : William Beik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521367820
This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Historians
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Author : John J. Conley
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
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John J. Conley, S.J., brings to life, in amazing technicolor, the complex personalities of the long-overlooked and complicated Port-Royal Arnaud women philosophers.
Author : Sandra Marie Schneiders
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1587682575
Author : Peter Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134748051
Absolutism in Central Europe is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. This book investigates how scholars from a variety of disciplines have defined and explained political development across what was formerly known as the 'age of absolutism'. It assesses whether the term still has utility as a tool of analysis and it explores the wider ramifications of the process of state-formation from the experience of central Europe from the early seventeenth century to the start of the nineteenth.
Author : Thomas M. Carr
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
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Multidisciplinary studies by leading scholars reflect on the writings of early modern French nuns. This text includes bibliographies, a detailed index, and checklist of original sources.
Author : Nannerl O. Keohane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400886317
Tracing the development of French political thought in the seventeenth century, Nannerl Keohane explores a quite different emphasis on the indivisibility of sovereignty and the expression of interests rather than rights. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.