By Force and Fear. Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe
de Schutte, Anne Jacobson
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0801449774
- ISBN 13
- 9780801449772
- Librería
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801449774 . Xiv, 285 pp. Bibliography, index. 2 colour plates, many figures, tables, charts and maps. Octavo. Grey dust jacket with figure of a nun and a monk, now in Mylar, with minor shelf wear. Book itself has minor age to covers, interior has owner sig. , otherwise clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. ..Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses shaped by literary sources such as Manzoni's The Betrothed are badly off the mark. Drawing on records of the Congregation of the Council, held in the Vatican Archive, Schutte examines nearly one thousand petitions for annulment of monastic vows submitted to the Pope and adjudicated by the Council during a 125-year period, from 1668 to 1793. She considers petitions from Roman Catholic regions across Europe and a few from Latin America and finds that, in about half these cases, the congregation reached a decision. Many women and a smaller proportion of men got what they asked for: decrees nullifying their monastic profession and releasing them from religious houses. Schutte also reaches important conclusions about relations between elders and offspring in early modern families. Contrary to the picture historians have painted of increasingly less patriarchal and more egalitarian families, she finds numerous instances of fathers, mothers, and other relatives (including older siblings) employing physical violence and psychological pressure to compel adolescents into "entering religion." Dramatic tales from the archives show that many victims of such violence remained so intimidated that they dared not petition the pope until the agents of force and fear had died, by which time they themselves were middle-aged. Schutte's innovative book will be of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe, especially those who work on religion, the Church, family, and gender. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages .
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- Librería
- Leaf and Stone Books (CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 11574
- Título
- By Force and Fear. Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe
- Autor
- Schutte, Anne Jacobson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801449774
- ISBN 13
- 9780801449772
- Editorial
- Cornell University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Ithaca & London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2011
- Palabras clave
- 0801449774, Nunneries, Monasteries, Dispensations, Canon_law, Vows, Monastics
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Women's Studies; Religion - Monasticism; History: Early Modern;
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Sobre Leaf and Stone Books
Formerly Greekdrama Books Specializing in classical, medieval and ancient languages, history and cultures; antiquarian and unusual books; and interesting used books. We also carry many early printed books, particularly in the subjects of classics and religion, including incunabula and manuscripts.
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