2022年4月15日 · Based on the article of Professor Frances E. Dolan ‘Why Are Nuns Funny?’ (2007), the following analysis will discuss how the figure of the nun does allow us to understand what it was to be a woman of Catholic faith in 17th-century reformed England, through three main notions: representations of women and religiousness, anti-Catholic propaganda, ...

2017年9月11日 · In 1676, Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione had an infernal conversation with the Devil. When she came to her senses, the nun, who lived at a convent in Palma di Montechiaro in Sicily,...

2020年8月25日 · By the seventeenth century, underground recusant networks of resistance successfully supported the mission led by Jesuits trained on the Continent, despite the growing legal arsenal meant to suppress the movement. 1 In that context, Catholicism gradually came to be represented as incompatible with Englishness and loyalty to the Crown; virulent p...

2024年5月19日 · A devilish letter written by a 17th century nun has been translated. Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione, a 31-year-old nun living at the convent of Palma di Montechiaro in Sicily, was said to be possessed when she wrote the letter.

During the 17th century, over 80,000 women lived and were educated in convents. [3] [4] Nuns never received monetary compensation. They served without salary, surviving on charity. [5] Although many young girls lived in the convents, they were not nuns. Every European Catholic city had at least one convent and some had dozens or more. [6]

2024年2月23日 · Can being possessed by the devil ever be a good thing…? Well, for a 17th-century Italian nun who claimed to have seen Jesus Christ, plus literally marrying him, it kind of was. Plus it helped with all the accusations of her having …

On 11 August 1676, a 31-year-old nun was found on the floor of her convent cell, her face doused in ink, clutching a note scrawled in an unintelligible mix of symbols and letters. The sister, named Maria Crocifissa della Concezione, said the letter was penned by the devil himself, in a bid to get her to turn away from God towards evil ...

This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts o...

2015年7月28日 · Fascinating study of everyday life in the teaching convents of 17th- and 18th-century France, utilizing letters, chronicles, and other writings produced by nuns for and about themselves.

2017年9月11日 · The secret contents of a letter written by a nun "possessed by the devil" in the 17th century has finally be decoded. The letter was discovered at a convent in Sicily, where the nun had...