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| Date: | 2012 |
| Title: | Clerical Guidance and Lived Spirituality in Early Modern English Convents |
| Contributor: | Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) Aix Marseille Université (AMU) Aix Marseille Université (AMU) Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin |
| Author: | Lux-Sterritt, Laurence |
| Description: | International audience ; This essay explores issues regarding the practice of Catholic spirituality in early modern English convents in exile. The reforming Council of Trent (1545–63) had sought to regain control and impose order over every aspect of Catholic life, and had been particularly thorough in its dealings with female religious. General rules were imposed upon all convents (such was the case of enclosure), but each Order also referred to the more precise Rules or Constitutions left by its founders (regarding silence, learning, asceticism or work, for instance). Finally, each individual followed the advice of her confessor or director, who guided her upon her spiritual journey. The analysis of the roles played by directors in religious women’s spiritual lives poses several questions regarding the thorny issue of authority. What did learned directors, with their reliance upon theological knowledge, advocate as sound paths to the divine when advising women, with their reputedly weaker abilities? Was their guidance deemed indispensable for a religious woman hoping to find God? Did the rationalized methods advocated by clerics suit female spirituality and the women’s lived experience? |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/82824 |
| Other Identifier: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01408181/file/Chapter%20Two%20Clerical%20Guidance.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01408181 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01408181/document |
| AMAD ID: | 611700 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
