Apology in the Form of Autohagiography: Angélique Arnauld's Defense of Her Reform of Port-Royal
In the context of the Jansenist controversy in seventeenth-century France, the nuns at the convent of Port-Royal made an effort to record the history of the convent and its reform by the abbess, Mother Angélique Arnauld (1591-1661). In this project, the nuns employed feminine and monastic genres of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2019
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 105, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-303 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Arnauld, Jacqueline Marie Angélique 1591-1661
/ Autobiography
/ Hagiography
/ Kloster Port-Royal
/ Jansenism
/ Apologia
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBG France KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Arnauld, Jacqueline Marie Angélique, 1591-1661
B Christian hagiography B Jansenists B autohagiography B Providence B Christian heresies; History; Modern Period, 1500- B Angélique Arnauld B Jansenism (Christianity) B Jansenism B Nuns B CHRISTIAN abbesses B Saint-Cyran |
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| Summary: | In the context of the Jansenist controversy in seventeenth-century France, the nuns at the convent of Port-Royal made an effort to record the history of the convent and its reform by the abbess, Mother Angélique Arnauld (1591-1661). In this project, the nuns employed feminine and monastic genres of writing as a way to defend both the convent and its supporters. This article examines the autobiographical account of Mother Angélique through the lens of the genre of autohagiography, demonstrating how she used this genre in defense of the convent to write an apology for her former confessor, the Abbot of Saint-Cyran (1581-1643), and a theology of divine providence. In her use of this genre, Mother Angélique expressed her theological ideas in a manner permitted to women in the early modern era. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2019.0055 |