22 décembre 2020
Laurence Lux-Sterritt, « How to feel God in an English convent? Religious emotions, rituals and performative methods. », Early Modern English Nuns, ID : 10670/1.c82r2b
Today I would like to take a closer look at the subject of religious emotions through the prism of performativity and religious rituals. One of the striking aspects of early modern conventual archives is the large proportion of prescriptive documents that have survived and testify to the extent to which every aspect of conventual was, in theory, regulated, including emotions. What were nuns supposed to feel in early modern convents? And more especially, how were they supposed to feel God? Emo...