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0000-0003-3528-1933
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University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 23-09-2004
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 09-2012
Abstract: The wealth of recent scholarship on early modern English news culture has paid scant attention to women as consumers and producers of news. This article argues that women not only read about the tumultuous events of the Civil War and Interregnum, but that they participated in the collection, transmission, and interpretation of news. Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the Benedictine abbey in Ghent not only operated as the royalists’ postmistress in the 1650s, she also accessed reports from England about unfolding political events, which she passed on to the prince’s ministers. Much of this information was transmitted in correspondence, but the abbess also forwarded printed newsbooks and compiled manuscript newsletters for the royalists. This essay reveals how cloistered nuns engaged directly with the public sphere through their access to news, and how their receipt and transmission of intelligence cemented their position as valuable royalist agents in the 1650s.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Date: 2015
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2004
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-06-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2002
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 17-08-2016
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2016.19
Abstract: England's Catholic religious minority devised various strategies for its survival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including the establishment of seminaries and convents in continental Europe, predominantly in France and the Spanish Netherlands. These institutions educated the next generation of English Catholic clergy, nuns and lay householders. Although convent schools were usually small, the nuns educated young girls within their religious cloisters. The pupils followed a modified monastic routine, while they were taught the skills appropriate for young gentlewomen, such as music and needlework. While many students were placed in convents with the intention that they would become nuns, not all girls followed this trajectory. Some left the cloister of their childhood to join other religious houses or to return to England to marry and raise a new generation of Catholics. Although we have few first-hand accounts of these girls’ experiences, it is possible to piece together a sense of their lives behind cloistered walls from chronicles, obituaries and letters. While the exiled monastic life for children was difficult, surviving evidence points to the vital role of convent care in Catholic families’ strategies, and the acknowledgement of their importance by the girls placed there, whether temporarily or permanently.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/JOWH.0.0061
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