{"product_id":"irish-women-in-religious-orders-bronagh-ann-mcshane-9781783277308","title":"Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration","description":"The lives and experiences of Irish women religious highlight how an expanding nexus of female houses perpetuated European Counter-Reformation devotion in Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJOINT WINNER: 2023 National University of Ireland's Publication Prize in Irish History\u003cbr\u003eHONORABLE MENTION: 2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (USA) Book Awards\u003cbr\u003eSHORT-LISTED: Royal Historical Society 2023 Whitfield Book Prize \u003cbr\u003eLONG-LISTED: 2023 Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC) Book Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, religious vocation options for women continued in less formal ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e McShane explores the experiences of Irish women who travelled to the Continent in pursuit of formal religious vocational formation, covering both those accommodated in English and European continental convents' and those in the Irish convents established in Spanish Flanders and the Iberian Peninsula. Further, this book discusses the revival of religious establishments for women in Ireland from 1629 and outlines the links between these new convents and the Irish foundations abroad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Overall, this study provides a rich picture of Irish women religious during a period of unprecedented change and upheaval.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bronagh Ann McShane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783277300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783277308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Bronagh Ann McShane","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073246851327,"sku":"9781783277308","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1b873dd-981c-47ea-893f-b7279a564dcc.jpg?v=1685446692","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irish-women-in-religious-orders-bronagh-ann-mcshane-9781783277308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}