Laurence Lux Sterritt: 2 books
Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality
Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
This timely collection of essays on British and European Catholic spiritualities explores how ideas of the sacred have influenced female relationships with piety and religious vocations over time. Each of the studies focuses on specific persons or groups within the varied contexts of England, France,...
English Benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century
Living spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns'...