Rethinking Monastic Suppressions in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Italy
How Women Religious Negotiated for Their Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4349168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liise Lehtsalu (0000-0002-6894-3377, Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 945-964 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2015.1085263 |
| OpenAlex | W2313188071 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Female religious communities and individual women religious confronted the monastic suppressions in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Italy by actively negotiating with authorities both during and after the suppression decrees. The lack of the voices of the suppressed women religious in current scholarship has led scholars to argue for top-down, predetermined reorganization and destruction of religious life in revolutionary and Napoleonic Italy. A comparison of the three main suppression decrees reveals, instead, an evolving approach to religious institutions during this period. The petitions by women religious underscore how compromise and accommodation characterized the interactions between female communities and local and central authorities. The suppression of monasteries was not imposed on monastic women unilaterally; rather, these women actively negotiated the suppressions to optimize the outcome for their communities and for themselves
Accommodation · Aesthetics · Art · Compromise · Negotiation · Political science · Religious life · Scholarship · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
Redefining Female Religious Life
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain
Prosperity and Plunder
Napoleon and the Revival of Female Religious Communities in Paris, 1800–14
Anthropometric Evidence on Living Standards in Northern Italy, 1730–1860
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy
Nails in the Wall
The Devotes
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |