Title Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700 Suppression, Migration and Reintegration

Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (322 p.) Series Irish Historical Monographs ; v.25 Irish historical monographs series. Contents Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Suppression and survival -- 1: Female religious communities and the Henrician suppression campaigns -- 2: Negotiating religious change: survival and continuity in post-dissolution Ireland -- Part 2: Migration -- 3: Irish women religious in France and Flanders during the first half of the seventeenth century -- 4: Irish nuns in Iberia -- Part 3: Reintegration -- 5: Reintegration and renewal: female religious communities in Ireland, 1629-49 6: Female religious and the impact of the Cromwellian campaigns, 1649-60 -- 7: Restoration, revival, and survival, 1660-1700 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Irish Historical Monographs previous volumes Summary The first comprehensive study of the lives and experiences of Irish women religious during the early modern period, highlighting how an expanding nexus of female houses facilitated the perpetuation of European Counter-Reformation devotion in Ireland This book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways. McShane explores the experiences of Irish women who travelled to the Continent in pursuit of formal religious vocational formation, covering both those accommodated in English and European continental convents' and those in the Irish convents established in Spanish Flanders and the Iberian Peninsula. Further, this book discusses the revival of religious establishments for women in Ireland from 1629 and outlines the links between these new convents and the Irish foundations abroad. Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Monastic and religious life of women -- Ireland -- 16th century Monastic and religious life of women -- Ireland -- 17th century Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ireland -- 16th century Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Ireland -- 17th century Monastic and religious life of women Monasticism and religious orders for women Ireland Form Electronic book ISBN 9781800106413 1800106416 9781800106406 1800106408

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