Caroline Bowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Bowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowden |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lived Religion in English Convents in Exile, 1600 - 1800
Conventual life in the early modern English communities in exile strictly observed the Rule and Constitutions which governed each house. These not only set out in great detail how every part of the day was to be spent but specified the spirit in which both lay sisters and choir nuns were to approach their tasks: all their time was devoted to God in a spirit of humility. Obituary notices commend many nuns for their assiduity in complying with thes…
Convent Schooling for English Girls in the ‘Exile’ Period, 1600–1800
Following the Reformation, Catholic families seeking to educate both sons and daughters in their faith faced many challenges. The penal laws proscribed the creation of Catholic schools in England and forbade parents to send children abroad for education. However, such was the determination to provide Catholic schooling that families were prepared to break the laws and meet the expense of fees and travel. The convents established schools for sever…
Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Patronage and Practice
The English convents founded in exile from 1598 rapidly became important cultural centres. They generated and supported a number of initiatives in the course of creating a well-regarded monastic life for English women. Although remaining essentially English institutions, nevertheless their situation in exile drew them into the orbit of local influences. For instance, their buildings were mostly designed and built by local craftsmen using local ma…
Syon Abbey and its Books
Collecting the Lives of Early Modern Women Religious
The leaders of the new English convents founded in exile in the seventeenth century faced particular challenges. With limited resources they sought to establish high standards in their convents. Key to encouraging new members to aspire to devotion, discipline and fulfilling the rules and constitutions of the founders was the communal reading of texts of exemplary lives. Senior members of the convents displayed keen awareness of the kinds of texts…
The Abbess and Mrs. Brown
The letters of Mary Knatchbull, abbess of the English Benedictine Convent in Ghent between 1650 and her death in 1696, are of considerable interest. They reveal a woman operating with significant influence in two discrete spheres: the enclosed cloister and the royalist court in exile. This article will consider briefly the religious career of Mary Knatchbull and her importance to the Benedictines of Ghent, before examining in detail her part in t…
For the Glory of God”
The early seventeenth century was a period, of considerable spiritual vitality among English Catholic women and saw the foundation of some nineteen convents in Flanders and northern France. There were fundamental distinctions over the detail of the constitutional structure and spiritual practice made by the founders leading to the establishment of convents following Benedictine, Augustinian, Franciscan, and Carmelite rules together with a new ord…
Women in england, c. 1275-1525
Women of the english nobility and gentry, 1066-1500
Parental attitudes towards the education of girls in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century England
This paper examines the attitudes of parents towards the education of daughters in the latter part of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, using mainly the evidence from letters and wills. It considers the influences on parents which led to changes in attitudes and the decision of a growing number of parents, particularly from the landed gentry to educate their daughters.The overwhelming concern of parents was to ensure that their daugh…
Patronage and Practice
The English convents founded in exile from 1598 rapidly became important cultural centres. They generated and supported a number of initiatives in the course of creating a well-regarded monastic life for English women. Although remaining essentially English institutions, nevertheless their situation in exile drew them into the orbit of local influences. For instance, their buildings were mostly designed and built by local craftsmen using local ma…
Collecting the Lives of Early Modern Women Religious
The leaders of the new English convents founded in exile in the seventeenth century faced particular challenges. With limited resources they sought to establish high standards in their convents. Key to encouraging new members to aspire to devotion, discipline and fulfilling the rules and constitutions of the founders was the communal reading of texts of exemplary lives. Senior members of the convents displayed keen awareness of the kinds of texts…
For the Glory of God”
The early seventeenth century was a period, of considerable spiritual vitality among English Catholic women and saw the foundation of some nineteen convents in Flanders and northern France. There were fundamental distinctions over the detail of the constitutional structure and spiritual practice made by the founders leading to the establishment of convents following Benedictine, Augustinian, Franciscan, and Carmelite rules together with a new ord…
Parental attitudes towards the education of girls in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century England
This paper examines the attitudes of parents towards the education of daughters in the latter part of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, using mainly the evidence from letters and wills. It considers the influences on parents which led to changes in attitudes and the decision of a growing number of parents, particularly from the landed gentry to educate their daughters.The overwhelming concern of parents was to ensure that their daugh…
Women in england, c. 1275-1525
Women of the english nobility and gentry, 1066-1500
The Abbess and Mrs. Brown
The letters of Mary Knatchbull, abbess of the English Benedictine Convent in Ghent between 1650 and her death in 1696, are of considerable interest. They reveal a woman operating with significant influence in two discrete spheres: the enclosed cloister and the royalist court in exile. This article will consider briefly the religious career of Mary Knatchbull and her importance to the Benedictines of Ghent, before examining in detail her part in t…
For the Glory of God”
The early seventeenth century was a period, of considerable spiritual vitality among English Catholic women and saw the foundation of some nineteen convents in Flanders and northern France. There were fundamental distinctions over the detail of the constitutional structure and spiritual practice made by the founders leading to the establishment of convents following Benedictine, Augustinian, Franciscan, and Carmelite rules together with a new ord…
Syon Abbey and its Books
Collecting the Lives of Early Modern Women Religious
The leaders of the new English convents founded in exile in the seventeenth century faced particular challenges. With limited resources they sought to establish high standards in their convents. Key to encouraging new members to aspire to devotion, discipline and fulfilling the rules and constitutions of the founders was the communal reading of texts of exemplary lives. Senior members of the convents displayed keen awareness of the kinds of texts…
Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Patronage and Practice
The English convents founded in exile from 1598 rapidly became important cultural centres. They generated and supported a number of initiatives in the course of creating a well-regarded monastic life for English women. Although remaining essentially English institutions, nevertheless their situation in exile drew them into the orbit of local influences. For instance, their buildings were mostly designed and built by local craftsmen using local ma…
Convent Schooling for English Girls in the ‘Exile’ Period, 1600–1800
Following the Reformation, Catholic families seeking to educate both sons and daughters in their faith faced many challenges. The penal laws proscribed the creation of Catholic schools in England and forbade parents to send children abroad for education. However, such was the determination to provide Catholic schooling that families were prepared to break the laws and meet the expense of fees and travel. The convents established schools for sever…
Lived Religion in English Convents in Exile, 1600 - 1800
Conventual life in the early modern English communities in exile strictly observed the Rule and Constitutions which governed each house. These not only set out in great detail how every part of the day was to be spent but specified the spirit in which both lay sisters and choir nuns were to approach their tasks: all their time was devoted to God in a spirit of humility. Obituary notices commend many nuns for their assiduity in complying with thes…
History (8 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Early Modern Women Writers (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)