The Jesuitesses in the Bookshop
Catholic Lay Sisters’ Participation in the Dutch Book Trade, 1650–1750
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12034208 |
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| Authors | E C Watson (0000-0003-3682-5816, University of St Andrews, corresponding author), Elise Watson |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Pages | 163-184 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/stc.2021.9 |
| OpenAlex | W3164387921 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The institutional Catholic Church in seventeenth-century Amsterdam relied on the work of inspired women who lived under an informal religious rule and called themselves ‘spiritual daughters’. Once the States of Holland banned all public exercise of Catholicism, spiritual daughters leveraged the ambiguity of their religious status to pursue unique roles in their communities as catechists, booksellers and enthusiastic consumers of print. However, their lack of a formal order caused consternation among their Catholic confessors. It also disturbed Reformed authorities in their communities, who branded them ‘Jesuitesses’. Whilst many scholars have documented this tension between inspired daughter and institutional critique, it has yet to be contextualized fully within the literary culture of the Dutch Republic. This article suggests that due to the de-institutionalized status of the spiritual daughters and the discursive print culture that surrounded them, public criticism replaced direct censure by Catholic and Reformed authorities as the primary impediment to their inspired work
Ambiguity · Criticism · Daughter · Order (exchange · Political science · Sociology · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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