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Writing habits : historicism, philosophy, and English Benedictine convents, 1600-1800
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"An in-depth examination of a significant, but marginalized, body of literature: the texts produced in English Benedictine convents on the Continent between 1600 and 1800"--
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- Creator
- Jaime Goodrich
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
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- xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0817321039, 9780817393724, 9780817321031, 0817393722
- OCLC
- on1272994874, on1243349357
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Buber and the Benedictines -- Cloistered Gemeinschaft : administrative writing and communal formation -- Religious communion : spiritual texts and liturgical rites -- Monastic imagined communities : histories, life writing, and the divine call -- From the convent to the counterpublic : controversial works and rival spiritual communities -- Afterword. Thinking with the dead : notes toward a feminist philosophical turn
Subjects
- Buber, Martin, 1878-1965. Ich und du.
- Benedictine nuns -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
- Benedictine nuns -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- Catholic literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women authors, English -- Religious life -- Europe -- History.
- Presentism (Literary analysis)
- Historicism.