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Re-orientates our understanding of English convents in exile towards Catholic Europe, contextualizing the convents within the transnational Church.
The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800
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Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France
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The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferio