UID:
almafu_9960944207102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-640-8
Series Statement:
Irish historical monographs ; 25
Content:
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.〈br〉〈br〉Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2022).
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Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Suppression and survival -- 1: Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns -- 2: Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland -- Part 2: Migration -- 3: Irish women religious in France and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century -- 4: Irish nuns in Iberia -- Part 3: Reintegration -- 5: Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-49 6: Female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-60 -- 7: Restoration, revival, and survival, 1660-1700 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Irish Historical Monographs previous volumes.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800106406
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