English convents in exile, 1600-1800
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English convents in exile, 1600-1800
Pickering & Chatto, 2012-
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- pt. 2
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pt. 1 ISBN 9781848932142
Description
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique resource.
Table of Contents
- Set I General Introduction Volume 1: History Writing Rouen Chronicle of the Poor Clare Sisters: Volume I, 1644-1701
- Volume II, 1701-80 Samples of the Rouen Chronicle Manuscripts Appendix: Calendar of Feasts Volume 2: Spirituality Part I: The Stages of a Nun's Life Carmelites: 'The manner of receiving Novices'
- 'The manner of making our Profession'. Sepulchrines: 'The ceremonys in short of taking the Novisses habit'. Further Ceremonies of the Sepulchrines: 'The ceremonys in short for the Profession'
- 'The ceremonys for taking the first habit'
- 'Ceremonys for the cloathing of a lay Sister'
- 'Ceremonys in short for professing lay Sisters'. Carmelites: 'Treatise the fifth. Instructions for thos who give voices in the reception of Novices, or Professions'. Examinations: Of the Benedictine Lay Sister Elizabeth Newton
- Of the Dominican Sister Mary Ursula Short. Poor Clares: 'Instructions upon the manner of governing Novices'. Augustinians: 'The qualityes necessary for a covent Sister'. Benedictines: 'A short treatise of the three principall vertues and vows of religious persons'
- Michel-Ange Marin, The Perfect Religious (1762). Poor Clares: 'The dispositions for a happy death'
- James Mumford, Remembrance for the Living to Pray for the Dead (1641
- 1661) Part II: Spiritual Instructions and Guidance Benedictines: 'Just reproaches of our Lord to a soule who will not free herself from the love of a creature, nor herselfe'
- Lucy Herbert, Several Methods and Practices of Devotion (1743). Augustinians: 'A retreat upon the regulation of our dayly duties'. Sepulchrines: 'Considerations for the 10 dayes exercise'. Carmelites: 'A most profi table, and necessary advertisement for all such, who shall make the spiritual exercise' (1747)
- 'First treatise. The amiable Jesus or The practise of love towards our Lord Jesus Christ'
- 'Second Treatise. The Man of Prayer Or instructions for mental prayer according to the three states of a spiritual life'
- 'Treatise [the] Third. Pure love or Means to attain it and it's effects'. Augustinians: 'Christ having suffer'd in his flesh'
- 'The first meditation of the prayer in the garden when He sweat blood with sorrow for us' Part III: Rules and Liturgy Benedictines: 'Some reflections on the Holy Rule of our most Holy Father, the glorious Saint Benedict'. Poor Clares: The Following Collections or Pious Little Treatises Together with the Rule of S. Clare (1684)
- Lucy Herbert, Several Excellent Methods of Hearing Mass (1742). Benedictines: 'The affections contained in the Haile Mary, or angelicall salutation'
- 'The prayers and ceremonies of the Mass explained or A historical and dogmatical account of the prayers and ceremonies of the Mass'
- The Office of the Holy Week according to the Roman Missal and Breviary (1788)
- John Gother, Instructions and Devotions for Hearing Mass (1699) Part IV: Hagiography, Martyrology and Edification The Roman Martyrologe (1667)
- Jerome Porter, The Flowers of the Lives of the Most Renowned Saincts of the Three Kingdoms (1632). Sepulchrines: 'A short narrative of the notable conversion of a certaine Romane lady'. Augustinians: Obituary of Sister Brigit Gifford
- Obituary of Sister Eugenia Risdon. Benedictines: Obituaries of Dame Mary Vavasour, Dame Mary Crispe and Lay Sister Barbara Wilson Part V: Nuns' Writings Sepulchrines: 'Another preparation to the exercise. Where be the days of thy life'
- 'A Most Devout and Efficatious Prayer to our Blessed Redeemer in the honour of his Bitter Passion'
- 'How to make or renew our vows with spirit & affection'. Poor Clares: 'The Circumcision'
- 'The chief points of our holy ceremonys in which the Sisters must daily renew them selves'
- 'Of the ardour & zeal which we ought to have to approach the holy mysterys'
- 'Eight Meditations for the Octave of the Most Blessed Sacrament'. Benedictines: 'The Litany of the Holy Name off Jesus'
- 'The Latanyes of the Blessed Virgin Marye'. Sepulchrines: 'An Intellectual Vision Relating to the Sacred Heart of Jesus' (1766). Poor Clares: 'The sighs of a soul who desires to leave the world to go & unite herself to God in Heaven'. Benedictines: 'I give my selfe to thee my God with my whole hart & soule' and 'O my God I love thee with all my heart above all things'. Augustinians: Poems in the hand of Anne Throckmorton
- 'On the yearly day of a Profession'
- 'For a Profession of a friend'
- 'Upon the Clothing of a Friend'
- 'To a friend upon the death of her sister'
- 'For St Theresa'
- 'Upon St Austin's Statue put up by reverend Mother Tildesley'
- 'When my sister Betty went to England'. Benedictines: Catherine Gascoigne, 'My prayer I know not how to express ...' (1633), from 'Colections' (1724)
- Gertrude More, 'Apology for Herself and her Spiritual Guide'
- Christina Brent, 'Some speeches made in chapter' Appendix 1: Hymns Appendix 2: Illustrations Volume 3: Life Writing I Part I: Reading and Writing Lives The Life of Margaret Clement
- The Life of Leonor de Mendanha
- The Life of Maria Maddelena de Patsi
- The Life of Lucy Knatchbull
- Obituaries from the Benedictine Convent in Brussels
- Obituaries from the Benedictine Convent at Pontoise
- Chronicle of the Poor Clares at Gravelines: 'Of the sickness of divers of the religious' Part II: Vocation, Arrival, Clothing and Profession Chronicle of the Poor Clares at Gravelines: 'Of their removing from St Omers' and 'Of the cloathing & noviship of the first eight that were admitted'
- The Clothing of Mary Percy and Dorothy Arundell: 'They came apparelled then as nonnes'
- Profession Certificates from Brussels and Lisbon Part III: Daily Lives Thimelby-Aston Literary Exchanges: 'Itt imports not wher, but how wee live'. Poor Clares of Aire: Correspondence of the Conyers Family. Convent Controversy and Intercepted Letters from Cambrai and Paris: 'We are now brought into most narrow straites'
- Letters to and from Bruges, Lisbon and Paris: Correspondence of the Huddleston Family
- A Letter from Catherine Whitham concerning 'the dreadfull afair' of the Lisbon Earthquake
- A Letter from the Chronicle of the Poor Clares at Gravelines concerning 'the entire ruin of the faire monastery'
- A Poor Clares Recipe Book. The Poor Clares Build their Convent: 'Carrying stones, sand & water'
- 'I leave you to guess our dear Mother's surprise': An Illustrated Poem from St Monica's, Louvain
- 'Forbear, my muse, to take thy wandring flights': A Poem from the Dominican Convent, Brussels
- 'On the bright day, with joy we'll celebrate': A Congratulatory Poem from the Benedictine Convent, Brussels
- 'The True Relation of the Miraculous Cure of an English Nun at Ghent'
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pt. 2 ISBN 9781848932159
Description
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique resource.
Table of Contents
- Set II Volume 4: Life Writing II 'Short Colections of the beginings of our english monastery of Teresians In Antwerp with some few perticulars of our dear deceased religious' Volume 5: Convent Management Part I: Finance Income: Poor Clares: 'Letter from Mary Gough Poor Clares explaining their financial situation and asking for assistance'. Augustinians: 'Benefactors' Book' and 'the Easter Part'
- 'Acts of the Council of the Canonesses Regulars of St Augustin's Order Established upon the ancient fosse of St Victor in Paris'. Benedictines: 'Accounts, 1717-1740'. Bridgettines: 'Statements Regarding a pension'. Expenditure: Benedictines: 'The Receipts, Disbursements and Debts of our Monastery, from the year 1599 to 1736'. Augustinians: 'Acts of the Council of the Canonesses Regulars of St Augustin's Order Established upon the ancient fosse of St Victor in Paris'. Benedictines: 'Accounts, 1715-1743'. Benefactors' Book: Carmelites: 'Receipt and Benefactors' Book'. Agents: Augustinians and Dominicans: 'Strickland Papers'. Part II: Governance, Leadership and Authority Practical Convent Management and Leadership: Carmelites: 'Ceremonial - The Office of the Reverend Mother Prioress'. Poor Clares: 'Instructions about Archives'. Benedictines: 'The foundation of Bullogne written by my Lady Mary Knatchbull'
- 'Instructions for Superiors'. Carmelites: 'Observances (1650)'
- 'About a Superior'. Elections and Related Matters: Benedictines: Elections and Vows of Abbesses
- Resignation of Anne Forster (1682). Obituaries of Superiors: Poor Clares: Obituaries from the Gravelines Chronicle. Benedictines: 'Obituary Book'. Carmelites: 'Obituary of Mary Brent'. Abbesses' Letters: Augustinians: 'Prioress Lucy Herbert's last letter to the Community (1744)'
- 'Letters from Lady Lucy Herbert to Sir Francis Fortescue about the profession of Frances Huddleston (1727)'. Benedictines: 'Letter from Abbess Marina Beaumont to the English Chapter' (1670). Management Structure: Augustinians: Chapter Books
- Council Books Selection and Formation of Candidates for the Novitiate: Carmelites: 'The Manner of bringing up Novices (1751)'. Benedictines: Letters from the Abbess Regarding Professions. Problems in Governance - Disputes: Poor Clares: Chronicle of the Gravelines Poor Clares
- 'The Dispute at the Conceptionist convent, Paris' (1675) Volume 6: The Convents and the Outside World Part I: Polemics Protestant Polemical Pamphlets of the Late Jacobean Period: Thomas Robinson, The Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall (1622)
- John Gee, New Shreds of the Old Snare (1624). Eighteenth-Century Polemics: Convents Rejected and Proposed: A Letter to a Virtuous Lady, to Dissuade her from her Resolution of being a Nun (1686). Satirical Images: The Discipline of a Nunnery (1779)
- A Nun confessing her past Follies to Father Sly-Boots (1794). Popular European Satire in English: The Cloisters Laid Open, or, Adventures of the Priests and Nuns (1770)
- The amorous friars: or, the intrigues of a convent (1759). Nuns, Methodism and the Church of England: Extracts from Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760)
- Israel Pottinger, The Methodist a comedy
- being a continuation and completion of the plan of The minor, written by Mr. Foote (1761). Nuns in Polite Culture: Joseph Addison, Spectator (Friday, 7 September 1711)
- John Langhorne, The letters that passed between Theodosius and Constantia
- after she had taken the veil (1763)
- Anne Fuller, The convent: or, the history of Sophia Nelson (1786)
- Catharine Selden, The English Nun. A novel (1797)
- Emily Clark, Ermina Montrose
- or, the cottage of the vale (1800). Nuns and History: John Adams, Woman. Sketches of the history, genius, disposition, accomplishments, employments, customs and importance of the fair sex, in all parts of the world (1790). Gordon Riots and After: Letter from 'PHILO-BRITANNICUS', London Chronicle (20-22 July 1780)
- Excerpt from Gazeteer and New Daily Advertiser (1 June 1780)
- Mother Hilda [Haigh] IBVM, 'A Short History of St Mary's Convent, York' (1911) Part II: American Connections Connections between Europe and America before Independence: Letters from Sisters Elizabeth Clare and Monica Clare Hagan' (1773)
- 'From Sisters Elizabeth Clare and Monica Clare Hagan at the Poor Clares, Rouen' (1783)
- 'From Sister Teresa Hagan to Father John Bolton' (1785)
- 'Monica Clare Hagan in Rouen to Father John Bolton in Maryland' (1785)
- 'Teresa Hagan to Father John Bolton' (1786). Foundation of Port Tobacco: 'Account of the foundation'
- Letters from De Villegas d'Estainbourg (1790)
- The European Benefactors. Journey to America: 'Quittance for Clare Joseph Dickinson' (1790). Property on Board: 'Agreement between Father Charles Neale and Alexander McDougall the owner and captain of the ship taking the party to America' (1790)
- 'The Voyage to America' (1790)
- 'Copy of a letter from Mother Bernadina Teresa Matthews, Prioress of the convent at Port Tobacco to the confessor at Hoogstraten'. Early Years at Port Tobacco: Port Tobacco Profession Book
- 'Letter to Mother Bernadina Matthews from Mr Jenkins' (1791)
- Spiritual Text: 'The Secrets of a Religious Life'
- 'A distribution of time for Summer' (1801)
- 'How beds were to be made'
- 'Letter from Prioress Clare Joseph Dickinson to John Carroll' (1801). Obituaries of Founders: Two versions of the life of Charles Neale written by Clare Joseph Dickenson
- Obituaries of Bernadina Teresa Matthews and Clare Joseph Dickenson. Carmelites: Letters from England: 'Letters from Sister Teresa Cowdrey from Lanherne to Port Tobacco, 1794-1802'. Reports of the Foundation from Europe: 'Letter of Mary Louisa Hagan' (1791)
- 'From Sister Ann Luisa Hill to Dr John Carroll' (1790)
- 'Letter from Mary Aloysia Houseman to Father Charles Neale in Maryland' (1791). Part III: The French Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Return to England: Benedictines of Paris: 'An Account of the Community during the French Revolution'. Augustinians of Paris: 'Diurnal'. Poor Clares: Rouen Chronicles, Book III. Augustinians of Bruges: 'an account of the Austin nuns travels from Bruges to England - the year 1794'. Carmelites of Antwerp: 'Account of the nuns coming to England'. Poor Clares of Aire: Correspondence of the Conyers Family. Selected Correspondence from the Archives Nationales, Paris, France.
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