{"id":1783,"date":"2017-04-25T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2017-04-25T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T16:30:52","slug":"book-announcement-laurence-lux-sterritt-english-benedictine-nuns-in-exile-in-the-seventeenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-laurence-lux-sterritt-english-benedictine-nuns-in-exile-in-the-seventeenth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Laurence Lux-Sterritt, English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Laurence Lux-Sterritt,\u00a0<em>English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Manchester: Manchester University Press,\u00a02017<\/h2>\n<p><strong>ISBN: 978-1-5261-1005-3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526110053\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526110053\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-laurence-lux-sterritt-english-benedictine-nuns-in-exile-in-the-seventeenth-century\/lux-sterritt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1785\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1785\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/lux-sterritt.jpg?resize=192%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/lux-sterritt.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/lux-sterritt.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns&#8217; own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns&#8217; personal experiences, illustrating the tensions between theory and practice in the ideal of being dead to the world. It shows how Benedictine convents were both cut-off and enclosed yet very much in touch with the religious and political developments at home, but also proposes a different approach to the history of nuns, with a study of emotions and the senses in the cloister, delving into the textual analysis of the nuns&#8217; personal and communal documents to explore aspect of a lived spirituality, when the body which so often hindered the spirit, at times enabled spiritual experience.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Lux-Sterritt,\u00a0English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality\u00a0 Manchester: Manchester University Press,\u00a02017 ISBN: 978-1-5261-1005-3 Details: http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526110053\/ This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns&#8217; own collections of notes. It highlights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}