By Force and Fear : : Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe / / Anne Jacobson Schutte.
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. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses-sh...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 halftones, 7 maps, 2 tables, 8 charts/graphs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrative Materials
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Forced Monachization, 1668-1793: An Overview
- 2. Literary and Historiographical Contexts
- 3. Elders and Forced Monachization
- 4. Waging Law in the Congregation of the Council
- 5. Contracts and Fear in Monachization and Marriage
- 6. Witnesses to Forced Monachization
- 7. Degrees of Separation
- 8. War and Coerced Monachization
- 9. Continuity and Change in Forced Monachization
- Bibliography
- Index