Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise

After the Henrician reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries, as Protestantism settled as the established religion under Elizabeth I, English Catholic women who wished to take the veil had no other choice but to leave their native country to embrace religious life on the Continent, amongst...

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Main Author: Laurence Lux-Sterritt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2019-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/3658
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description After the Henrician reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries, as Protestantism settled as the established religion under Elizabeth I, English Catholic women who wished to take the veil had no other choice but to leave their native country to embrace religious life on the Continent, amongst local communities, often in the North of France and the Spanish Netherlands. In those convents, the refugees embodied the plight of a Catholicism without borders which, in the face of Protestant persecution, refused to be defeated and, on the contrary, grew in fervour. Yet although they proudly belonged to the universal Church of Rome, English nuns were different from their Continental Sisters. A brief study of some of the twenty-two convents founded specifically for English entrants during the seventeenth century will reveal the most salient aspects which made English convents in exile exceptional.
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Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise
XVII-XVIII
English convents
English Catholicism
seventeenth century
exile
mission
title Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise
title_full Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise
title_fullStr Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise
title_full_unstemmed Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise
title_short Appartenance et singularité des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent : l’exception anglaise
title_sort appartenance et singularite des couvents anglais en exil sur le continent l exception anglaise
topic English convents
English Catholicism
seventeenth century
exile
mission
url http://journals.openedition.org/1718/3658
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