Translated out of laten in to frensshe, and nowe of late in to Englisshe by Margaret countess of Richmond & derby. London: Richard Pynson. Google Scholar Bowden, Caroline. 2015. “The English Convents in Exile and Their Neighbours: Extended Networks, Patrons, Benefactors.” In Early ...
Convents were depicted as prisons, brothels and madhouses and were regarded as the locus for all kinds of perversions, sexual perversions in particular. The term 'pervert' was used in the context of the 'pervert' being led astray from 'true' religion, and applied to Protestants who converted...
and also much time to consider one’s choice. There are numerous orders of nuns, each with different missions. Those who do not work in the outside world are more traditionally called a nun, while those who work outside of the convent, and are not cloistered are called a sister...
Similarly, prior to the Vatican II women entering convents were stripped of their identity to enable a complete break with the secular world. They had their heads shaved, exchanged their own clothing for a habit and were given new, often male, religious names (Clough 2017, p. 36). Women...
“calling” to serve God, and also much time to consider one’s choice. There are numerous orders of nuns, each with different missions. Those who do not work in the outside world are more traditionally called a nun, while those who work outside of the convent, and are not cloistered ...
Mid-nineteenth-century anti-Catholic discourse was fuelled by stories of girls being inveigled into convents, terrible 'goings on' within the convent walls, and warnings of how Roman Catholicism could destroy even the bonds of matrimony. Two very well known and sensational cases of the time ...