Convent Autobiography: Early Modern English Nuns in Exile

by Victoria Van Hyning

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197266576
• ISBN13: 9780197266571
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"