taking and breaking monastic vows in early modern Europe Schutte, Anne Jacobson. creator text bibliography Electronic books. History. nyu Ithaca Cornell University Press 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), maps Drawing on records of the Congregation of the Council, held in the Vatican Archive, Schutte examines nearly one thousand petitions for annulment of monastic vows submitted to the Pope and adjudicated by the Council during a 125-year period, from 1668 to 1793. She considers petitions from Roman Catholic regions across Europe and a few from Latin America and finds that, in about half these cases, the congregation reached a decision. Many women and a smaller proportion of men got what they asked for: decrees nullifying their monastic profession and releasing them from religious houses. Schutte also reaches important conclusions about relations between elders and offspring in early modern families. Contrary to the picture historians have painted of increasingly less patriarchal and more egalitarian families, she finds numerous instances of fathers, mothers, and other relatives (including older siblings) employing physical violence and psychological pressure to compel adolescents into "entering religion." Dramatic tales from the archives show that many victims of such violence remained so intimidated that they dared not petition the pope until the agents of force and fear had died, by which time they themselves were middle-aged. Schutte's innovative book will be of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe, especially those who work on religion, the Church, family, and gender.-- Book jacket. Forced monachization, 1668-1793 : an overview -- Literary and historiographical contexts -- Elders and forced monachization -- Waging law in the congregation of the council -- Contracts and fear in monachization and marriage -- Witnesses to forced monachization -- Degrees of separation -- War and coerced monachization -- Continuity and change in forced monachization. Anne Jacobson Schutte. Includes bibliographical references and index. e------ Vows History Profession (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) History Vows (Canon law) Dispensations (Canon law) Monastic and religious life Europe History HISTORY Renaissance Dispensations (Canon law) Monastic and religious life Profession (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) Vows Vows (Canon law) Europe Geistliches Leben Mönchtum Gelübde Freiwilligkeit Zwang Dispens Profess Exklaustrierung Säkularisierung Europa Kanonisk rätt historia Europa Klosterliv historia Europa Electronic books BX2435 .S39 2011eb 255.0094/09032 Schutte, Anne Jacobson. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2011003703 9780801463174 0801463173 22573/ctt4srp3 JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1487770 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1487770 E7B 110125 20200709060535.0 ocn754715002 eng