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English Benedictine nuns in exile
in the seventeenth century
General Editor
Anne Dunan-Page
Previously published
Laurence Lux-Sterritt
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Introduction 1
1 The contemplative ideal of dying to the world 23
2 When spiritual and secular families overlap 47
3 The secular concerns of contemplatives 77
4 The missionary spirit of enclosed nuns 101
5 Taming worldly emotions and appetites 136
6 Divine love, an emotional panacea? 160
7 What place for the senses in contemplative life? 185
8 Illness, death and beyond: the body as witness 217
Conclusion 248
Appendices 255
Bibliography 259
Index 288
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Note
1 https://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk/, accessed 25 May 2016.
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Brussels Benedictines
BB015 Berkeley, Joanna (d. 1616, prof. 1581 at Rheims).
Founding member and abbess of Brussels, 1599–1616
BB025 Bond, Katherine Thecla (1599–1655, prof. 1619)
BB039 Colford, Martha (1592–1634, prof. 1611)
BB058 Deacon, Potentiana (also known as Pudentiana, 1581–1645,
prof. 1608). She was a founding member of Cambrai in 1623
BB063 Digby, Magdalen (1583–1659, prof. 1611). Founding
member of Ghent in 1624, where she stayed
BB067 Ducket, Barbara (d. 1671, prof. 1618)
BB076 Forster, Anne (1636–1717, prof. 1655), abbess 1677–82
BB077 Forster, Placida (1639–1714, prof. 1655)
BB082 Gage, Teresa (1591–1654, prof. 1617)
BB086 Gawen, Mary Frances (1576–1640, prof. 1600). Founding
member of Cambrai in 1623, where she became abbess
(1623–29) and where she stayed
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Cambrai Benedictines
CB004 Appleton, Marina (1624–94, prof. 1626). A founding
member of Paris in 1651, she returned to Cambrai and
became abbess after Christina Brent, 1681–94
CB015 Brent, Christina (1601–81, prof. 1629); abbess, 1641–45
and 1677–81
CB027 Cary, Clementia (1615–71, prof. 1640), left to help found
Paris in 1651, where she stayed
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Dunkirk Benedictines
DB043 Conyers, Cecilia (1660–1710, prof. 1678)
DB092 Knightly, Maura (1650– 1712, prof. 1666); prioress until
1712
DB134 Poulton, Mechtldis (1685–1753, prof. 1705)
DB180 Warner, Agnes (1660–96, prof. 1680)
Ghent Benedictines
GB006 Bacon, Lucy (d. 1670, prof. 1625)
GB007 Barefoot, Dorothy (c. 1603–34, prof. 1630)
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Paris Benedictines
PB001 Appleby, Maria of the Blessed Sacrament (d. 1704, prof.
1667)
PB009 Bond, Mary Clare Joseph of Jesus (1734– 1789, prof.
1762); prioress, 1784–89
PB018 Coesneau, Placida of All Saints (1667–95, prof. 1683)
PB020 Conyers, Catherine of the Holy Cross (d. 1703, prof.
1665)
PB040 Hawes, Mary (d. 1690, prof. 1684)
PB067 Pease, Benedicta of St Amando Martyr (1648–99, prof.
1670)
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