1 septembre 2022
Meghan Lescault, « Searching for Secular Canonesses in Modern Literary Sources (Part I) », The Other Sisters, ID : 10670/1.elskhl
By Isabelle Cochelin Some detours worth exploring to learn more about non-cloistered religious women include nineteenth-century novels, journal articles and memoirs evoking their past lives. I will focus here on their rendering of secular canonesses to whom another blog post and a thematic meeting have already been dedicated. Thanks to the great nobility of their families and their relative freedom of movement, one finds various, intriguing echoes of their past lives in modern literary sour...