Convent Autobiography

Early Modern English Nuns in Exile

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Convent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal to practice Catholicism in England. These nuns went into a two-fold kind of exile for their beliefs. They moved abroad and they "died to the world", trying to cut ties with family and friends. Yet their convents needed support from outsiders to thrive. The nuns studied here reveal how they navigated this through their letters, printed works, paintings, and prayers. Often times these women wrote anonymously, a common practice for nuns, monks, and devout people of many religious persuasions up until the twentieth century. But anonymity was not just a neutral way of signalling humility or deep religious belief; it could allow people to write about themselves a lot more than they would have while writing under their own name. Exploring how some nuns exploited this to shape their convent's chronicle around their own points of view, Convent Autobiography holds up a mirror to the think about the double-edged role of anonymity throughout history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-06-06
Mått162 x 241 x 29 mm
Vikt808 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBritish Academy Monographs
Antal sidor416
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780197266571

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Victoria Van Hyning received a Masters in Medieval English Literature from Oxford University and a PhD in Early Modern Literature from the University of Sheffield where she held a British Library co-doctoral award. She held two postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford: a Digital Humanities and Crowdsourcing Fellowship (Zooniverse, Department of Astrophysics), and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Faculty of English and Pembroke). She has published on women's writing, autobiography, early modern Catholicism, and crowdsourcing. Her online humanities crowdsourcing interest has led her to relocate to the USA where she serves as a Senior Innovation Specialist at the Library of Congress.

Convent Autobiography is a major contribution to criticism on early modern Catholicism, and it belongs on the bookshelves of scholars interested in autobiography, the convents abroad, cloistered writing, and monastic history. Van Hyning's intrepid detective work and ground-breaking treatment of autobiography will open up valuable new terrain for anyone specializing in history, literary studies, religious studies, and women's studies.