Related Lives

Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450–1750

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff explores the ways in which clerics related to those female penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern age.Bilinkoff finds that confessional relations and the texts that document them reveal much about gender and social values. She uses life narratives, primarily from Spain, but also from France, Italy, Portugal, Spanish America, and French Canada, to examine the ways in which clerics presented female penitents as exemplary, and how they constructed their own identities around their interactions with exceptional women. These multilayered texts, she suggests, offer compelling accounts of individuals caught up in the pursuit of holiness, and provide a key to understanding the resilience of Catholic culture in an age of religious change and conflict.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-10-03
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801442513

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Jodi Bilinkoff has written a gem of a book: a fluent and succinct study of the relations between male confessors and women dedicated to spirituality in early modern Europe and the New World.... It would be the ideal introduction to a course devoted to a set of individual lives and a fine component for courses in gender history.... The book chronicles the evolution of a particular kind of pleasureful and rewarding friendship and collaboration, as an elaborate symbiosis develops between the spiritual women and the male confessor-scribe-promoters, who live through them and gain a kind of reflected fame and sanctity.... The book is valuable not only for its long view, but also for its geographical breadth, including much of the Catholic heartland in Europe (Spain, Italy, France, Portugal) as well as Spanish and French colonies in the New World.(Sixteenth Century Journal) This study illuminates the rich and compelling nature of the dynamic between male confessors and their female penitents, thereby adding tremendous dimension to our understanding of Catholic devotion in this period.(Renaissance Quarterly)