Convent autobiography: early modern English nuns in exile

Convent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal to practice Catholicism in England. These nuns went into a two-fold kind of exile for their beliefs. They moved abroad and they "died to the world&qu...

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Main Author: Van Hyning, Victoria (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press 2019
In:Year: 2019
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:British Academy monograph
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Englishwoman / Nun / Exile / Autobiographical literature / History 1540-1789
IxTheo Classification:CA Christianity
FA Theology