Nicky Hallett: 3 books
The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800
Early Modern ‘Convents of Pleasure’
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings-chronicles,...
Lives of Spirit
English Carmelite Self-Writing of the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that provides...
Witchcraft, Exorcism and the Politics of Possession in a Seventeenth-Century Convent
'How Sister Ursula was once Bewiched and Sister Margaret Twice'
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set of personal writing that reveals unprecedented...