Early Modern English Nuns

In June 2014, Victoria Van Hyning wrote a piece contextualising some of the twenty new biographies of early modern English nuns added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in May of that year. https://blog.oup.com/2014/06/english-convent-lives-exile-odnb/

Our next session, on Progress and Literary Genres : Redefinition and Evolution of the Novel, will be held on Monday 25 March, from 5 to 7 pm, room 2.44 of the maison de la recherche. We are delighted to welcome: Baudouin Millet (Université de Lyon 2), 'Progress and stasis: the poetics of digression...

The Who Were the Nuns? database has now been complemented by a fabulous volume: English Catholic Nuns in Exile, 1600-- 1800. A Biographical Register, edited by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Prosopographia & Genealogica Occasional Publications volume 15, 2017. This includes 93 pages of introductory material,...

  Landscapes & the Environment H-WRBI Annual Conference will take place at in London at the Institute of Historical Research on Thursday 6 June to Saturday 8 June 2019. More details for CFP and themes will be coming shortly.

Durham Early Modern Studies Conference, 22 --24 July 2019 Durham University, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies An interdisciplinary conference on the early modern period is well established at Durham, first as a biennial conference on The Seventeenth-Century, and more recently as a broa...

So, we are all pretty much in lockdown. After an initial phase of anxiety and numbness, simply trying to digest the extend of what is currently happening to the world as we know it, we have had to face up to some difficult decisions. It has become obvious that, in the interest of everyone's safety,...

Listen to this fabulous programme on Religious Divisions, Puppet Shows and Politics, featuring Lucy Underwood, Caroline Bowden and Alison Shell on early modern English Catholicism. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000xvn  The section starts at 15'14. Thank you to these wonderful academics for get...

Until quite recently, the history of early modern English nuns remained the niche of Catholic scholars and Catholic presses. But although post-Reformation English nuns were left out of the national historical construct for a long time, it is now being revealed that they did take an active part in th...

Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places: Experiencing the Court, 3 -- 4 April 2019 ... This year the Open University’s Spaces & Places conference will address the theme of ‘Experiencing the Court’ by exploring the senses and the lived experiences of courtly life, whether based in a particular re...

Caroline Bowden, pioneer of the study of early modern English convents in Exile, has always been most productive. You will find here an article posted in the news of Queen Mary University of London on 11 October 2017; it contains a few words on her edition of the manuscripts of the Nazareth convent...

  Stories from the archives of the English convents in exile The English Dominican nuns of the second Order were founded by Cardinal Philip Howard at Vilvorde (near Brussel) in 1661; in 1669, they settled in what was to be their long-term house, locally known as the Spellikens, in Brussels. On 7 Apr...

Claire Schiano (PhD candidate at Aix-Marseille Université) shares her experience in the conventual archives of the Much Birch community of Poor Clare religious. Planning my research trip Before starting my primary sources research project, I spent the first months of my doctoral studies reading seco...

The beginnings of the English Sepulchrine convent at Liege were rather tumultuous. Initially, the town was chosen because there was an English College of the Society of Jesus there, to whom the nuns could resort both for material help and spiritual comfort. The very early steps of the foundation wer...

On Monday 8 April 2019, the early modern seminar of the LERMA (Aix-Marseille Université) held a session on 'The Lived Religion of English Catholics'. Our guests were Liesbeth Corens and Emilie Murphy, who spoke to faculty and postgraduate and doctoral students about the various ways of living one's...

A story from # nuntastic archives, and a hilarious miracle From the notice on Mother Mary Wiseman’s parentage, we learn that her mother, Jane Wiseman (née Vaughan), had been active in relieving priests, and was taken into custody by the dreaded Richard Topcliffe in 1598. Since she refused to plead a...