Apology in the Form of Autohagiography: Angélique Arnauld's Defense of Her Reform of Port-Royal

In the context of the Jansenist controversy in seventeenth-century France, the nuns at the convent of Port-Royal made an effort to record the history of the convent and its reform by the abbess, Mother Angélique Arnauld (1591-1661). In this project, the nuns employed feminine and monastic genres of...

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Main Author: Cutter, Elissa ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Catholic University of America Press 2019
In: The catholic historical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 105, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-303
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Arnauld, Jacqueline Marie Angélique 1591-1661 / Autobiography / Hagiography / Kloster Port-Royal / Jansenism / Apologia
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBG France
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Arnauld, Jacqueline Marie Angélique, 1591-1661
B Christian hagiography
B Jansenists
B autohagiography
B Providence
B Christian heresies; History; Modern Period, 1500-
B Angélique Arnauld
B Jansenism (Christianity)
B Jansenism
B Nuns
B CHRISTIAN abbesses
B Saint-Cyran
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