Claire Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5401247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3528-1933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Huge Great cross”
In 1659, an English Benedictine nun with breast cancer interpreted her pain as a form of atonement for sin, but she also likened the ulcerating tumors to the five wounds of the crucified Christ. Without effective analgesics, early modern people sought alternative remedies to manage physical trauma and they invariably turned to their religious beliefs and practices. Scholarship on British Protestant attitudes to sickness and treatment is strong, b…
Hangd for the True Faith”
The annals of the English Carmelites of Antwerp document religious devotions which were intensely corporeal. Biographical sketches of individual sisters describe spiritual practices in which prayer and meditation, often enhanced by visual or bodily contact with devotional objects, fostered mystical encounters with Christ, saints, and martyrs. The Passion and the physical torment of holy figures who died for their faith infused the cloister's spir…
Religious Devotion, Gender and the Body in Europe, 1100–1800
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request
Governing Bodies, Family and Society
In 1719, and again in 1725, the Reverend Samuel Wesley preached a sermon on Galatians 6:1. It exhorted forgiveness for sinners “lest thou also be tempted” and was apparently delivered at a service of public shaming. This paper examines Wesley’s sermon within the context of his support for the Societies for the Reformation of Manners. It argues that Wesley employs a rhetoric of shame to admonish both the sinner who is the subject of the sermon, bu…
'Fama' and Her Sisters
This collection draws upon recent scholarship on oral and print cultures and their role in the transformation of the public sphere to present an interdisciplinary analysis of the ways gossip and rumour defined reputation and public opinion in early modern Europe. The essays in this collection demonstrate how Fama and her sisters, gossip and rumour, were central in private and public discourses about state and society in early modern Europe. In an…
An Inpatient Treatment Program for People with Gambling Problems
Crumbs of News
The wealth of recent scholarship on early modern English news culture has paid scant attention to women as consumers and producers of news. This article argues that women not only read about the tumultuous events of the Civil War and Interregnum, but that they participated in the collection, transmission, and interpretation of news. Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the Benedictine abbey in Ghent not only operated as the royalists’ postmistress in the 16…
Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England
The Historical Study of Women
Amanda Capern has provided a thoughtful analysis of the ideologies and events that shaped early modern women's lives, and the myriad ways in which individuals and groups accepted, transformed or rejected their position. More than the survey implied by its title, this book is ‘an extended exploration of the processes involved in the construction of femininity in early-modern England’ (p. 1). In each chapter, Capern deftly appraises the historiogra…
Syon Abbey and its Books
Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, wit
Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe
This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the nuns' membership of both the English Cath
Godliness, Sex and Propaganda
Books reviewed in this article: Kenneth Charlton, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England Frances E. Dolan, Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth–Century Print Culture Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America 1600–1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions Merry E. Wiesner–Hanks, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice
‘Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world’
Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world for alas tis not so, I am alive and ... as nearly concern’d for thos I love as if I had never left them and must shar in all ther fortunes wither good or bad.1
Prayer, Patronage, and Political Conspiracy
Restoration historiography has so far remained silent regarding the alliance between the exiled royalists and the recusant religious houses in the Low Countries. This article examines the assistance provided to the royalist cause by Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the English Benedictine cloister at Ghent. The correspondence of Charles's leading advisers, most notably Sir Edward Hyde, reveals the extent to which the conspirators relied upon the nuns' m…
Combining Martha and Mary
In the post-Reformation Church, strict monastic enclosure compounded the traditional religious and social ideologies limiting nuns' opportunities to support themselves. The English cloisters, established in France and the Low Countries, were further frustrated by their isolation from England which provided novices, alms, and much of their regular income. To survive the nuns transformed their everyday tasks into revenue-raising activities. A combi…
We Learn Russian
More Texts of the 1960's and 1970
In finishing this commentary on recent texts available for teaching the first year of Russian, I thankfully acknowledge the assistance of William W. Derbyshire of Rutgers University, Gilbert F. Holliday of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Maurice Levin of the University of Massachusetts, Nathan Rosen of the University of Rochester, and of my colleague at Friends School, Peter Ogilvie. This attempt would have been impossible w…
What Is Our First Priority in Teaching
Though some teachers are growing impatient with oral work in the Russian language, serious students are not. They want to speak and understand. But at the high school and junior college age they are not intrigued by patter or any semblance thereof; they seek a usable hold on the language which they can consciously expand. This desire, it has always seemed to me, is at once our challenge and our despair. It seems to us that we have not the time to…
Textbooks of the Sixties for 1970
The Study of Foreign Languages
Russian Teaching
In a speech a year ago before the Washington chapter of AATSEEL Mrs. Helen Yakobson warned that we are beginning to find a new range of student ability in our Russian classes. We used to get the unusual student, whose dedication overcame all defects of teacher and text. But now we will have to identify and cope with new problems, chiefly arising from lower aptitudes and less student initiative at all levels. Russian has already been rather notewo…
Summer Language Institutes--Magic
Do Our Students Speak
College teachers of Russian who receive into their second-year classes the unevenly trained products of high school courses, have a problem. No one will question this, least of all the high school teachers, who intimately know the deficiencies of time, character, and circumstances from which their graduates have suffered. Furthermore, the problem stands to be compounded in th'e next few years by a growing disparity among high school products. Som…
Toward More Facility in Russian
Prayer, Patronage, and Political Conspiracy
Restoration historiography has so far remained silent regarding the alliance between the exiled royalists and the recusant religious houses in the Low Countries. This article examines the assistance provided to the royalist cause by Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the English Benedictine cloister at Ghent. The correspondence of Charles's leading advisers, most notably Sir Edward Hyde, reveals the extent to which the conspirators relied upon the nuns' m…
Crumbs of News
The wealth of recent scholarship on early modern English news culture has paid scant attention to women as consumers and producers of news. This article argues that women not only read about the tumultuous events of the Civil War and Interregnum, but that they participated in the collection, transmission, and interpretation of news. Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the Benedictine abbey in Ghent not only operated as the royalists’ postmistress in the 16…
Do Our Students Speak
College teachers of Russian who receive into their second-year classes the unevenly trained products of high school courses, have a problem. No one will question this, least of all the high school teachers, who intimately know the deficiencies of time, character, and circumstances from which their graduates have suffered. Furthermore, the problem stands to be compounded in th'e next few years by a growing disparity among high school products. Som…
Toward More Facility in Russian
Do Our Students Speak
College teachers of Russian who receive into their second-year classes the unevenly trained products of high school courses, have a problem. No one will question this, least of all the high school teachers, who intimately know the deficiencies of time, character, and circumstances from which their graduates have suffered. Furthermore, the problem stands to be compounded in th'e next few years by a growing disparity among high school products. Som…
Summer Language Institutes--Magic
Russian Teaching
In a speech a year ago before the Washington chapter of AATSEEL Mrs. Helen Yakobson warned that we are beginning to find a new range of student ability in our Russian classes. We used to get the unusual student, whose dedication overcame all defects of teacher and text. But now we will have to identify and cope with new problems, chiefly arising from lower aptitudes and less student initiative at all levels. Russian has already been rather notewo…
The Study of Foreign Languages
What Is Our First Priority in Teaching
Though some teachers are growing impatient with oral work in the Russian language, serious students are not. They want to speak and understand. But at the high school and junior college age they are not intrigued by patter or any semblance thereof; they seek a usable hold on the language which they can consciously expand. This desire, it has always seemed to me, is at once our challenge and our despair. It seems to us that we have not the time to…
Textbooks of the Sixties for 1970
More Texts of the 1960's and 1970
In finishing this commentary on recent texts available for teaching the first year of Russian, I thankfully acknowledge the assistance of William W. Derbyshire of Rutgers University, Gilbert F. Holliday of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Maurice Levin of the University of Massachusetts, Nathan Rosen of the University of Rochester, and of my colleague at Friends School, Peter Ogilvie. This attempt would have been impossible w…
We Learn Russian
Combining Martha and Mary
In the post-Reformation Church, strict monastic enclosure compounded the traditional religious and social ideologies limiting nuns' opportunities to support themselves. The English cloisters, established in France and the Low Countries, were further frustrated by their isolation from England which provided novices, alms, and much of their regular income. To survive the nuns transformed their everyday tasks into revenue-raising activities. A combi…
Prayer, Patronage, and Political Conspiracy
Restoration historiography has so far remained silent regarding the alliance between the exiled royalists and the recusant religious houses in the Low Countries. This article examines the assistance provided to the royalist cause by Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the English Benedictine cloister at Ghent. The correspondence of Charles's leading advisers, most notably Sir Edward Hyde, reveals the extent to which the conspirators relied upon the nuns' m…
‘Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world’
Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world for alas tis not so, I am alive and ... as nearly concern’d for thos I love as if I had never left them and must shar in all ther fortunes wither good or bad.1
Godliness, Sex and Propaganda
Books reviewed in this article: Kenneth Charlton, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England Frances E. Dolan, Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth–Century Print Culture Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Women and Religion in Early America 1600–1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions Merry E. Wiesner–Hanks, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice
Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe
This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the nuns' membership of both the English Cath
Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, wit
Syon Abbey and its Books
Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England
The Historical Study of Women
Amanda Capern has provided a thoughtful analysis of the ideologies and events that shaped early modern women's lives, and the myriad ways in which individuals and groups accepted, transformed or rejected their position. More than the survey implied by its title, this book is ‘an extended exploration of the processes involved in the construction of femininity in early-modern England’ (p. 1). In each chapter, Capern deftly appraises the historiogra…
Crumbs of News
The wealth of recent scholarship on early modern English news culture has paid scant attention to women as consumers and producers of news. This article argues that women not only read about the tumultuous events of the Civil War and Interregnum, but that they participated in the collection, transmission, and interpretation of news. Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the Benedictine abbey in Ghent not only operated as the royalists’ postmistress in the 16…
An Inpatient Treatment Program for People with Gambling Problems
'Fama' and Her Sisters
This collection draws upon recent scholarship on oral and print cultures and their role in the transformation of the public sphere to present an interdisciplinary analysis of the ways gossip and rumour defined reputation and public opinion in early modern Europe. The essays in this collection demonstrate how Fama and her sisters, gossip and rumour, were central in private and public discourses about state and society in early modern Europe. In an…
Governing Bodies, Family and Society
In 1719, and again in 1725, the Reverend Samuel Wesley preached a sermon on Galatians 6:1. It exhorted forgiveness for sinners “lest thou also be tempted” and was apparently delivered at a service of public shaming. This paper examines Wesley’s sermon within the context of his support for the Societies for the Reformation of Manners. It argues that Wesley employs a rhetoric of shame to admonish both the sinner who is the subject of the sermon, bu…
Hangd for the True Faith”
The annals of the English Carmelites of Antwerp document religious devotions which were intensely corporeal. Biographical sketches of individual sisters describe spiritual practices in which prayer and meditation, often enhanced by visual or bodily contact with devotional objects, fostered mystical encounters with Christ, saints, and martyrs. The Passion and the physical torment of holy figures who died for their faith infused the cloister's spir…
Religious Devotion, Gender and the Body in Europe, 1100–1800
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request
Huge Great cross”
In 1659, an English Benedictine nun with breast cancer interpreted her pain as a form of atonement for sin, but she also likened the ulcerating tumors to the five wounds of the crucified Christ. Without effective analgesics, early modern people sought alternative remedies to manage physical trauma and they invariably turned to their religious beliefs and practices. Scholarship on British Protestant attitudes to sickness and treatment is strong, b…
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