Nicky Hallett
Ashgate
Hardback
320
2007
Yielding a wealth of new material concerning the lives of English nuns in exile in the Low Countries between 1619 and 1794 this volume of religious women's Lives is based on previously unpublished manuscripts. An extensive introduction provides historical and cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives and a reappraisal of the self-representation of religious women and of paradigms of life-writing in and beyond the early modern period.
Ashgate
Hardback
320
2007
Yielding a wealth of new material concerning the lives of English nuns in exile in the Low Countries between 1619 and 1794 this volume of religious women's Lives is based on previously unpublished manuscripts. An extensive introduction provides historical and cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives and a reappraisal of the self-representation of religious women and of paradigms of life-writing in and beyond the early modern period.