Christopher John Lane

Writer, Professor, Student of Christian Cultures

Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns


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Christopher J. Lane
Jenni Kuuliala, Rose-Marie Peake, Päivi Räisänen-Schröder, Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material, chapter 3, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 51–75


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Lane, C. J. (2019). Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns. In J. Kuuliala, R.-M. Peake, & P. Räisänen-Schröder (Eds.), Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material (pp. 51–75). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15553-7_3


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Lane, Christopher J. “Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns.” In Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material, edited by Jenni Kuuliala, Rose-Marie Peake, and Päivi Räisänen-Schröder, 51–75. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.


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Lane, Christopher J. “Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns.” Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material, edited by Jenni Kuuliala et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 51–75, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15553-7_3.


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@inbook{christopher2019a,
  title = {Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns},
  year = {2019},
  chapter = {3},
  pages = {51–75},
  publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-15553-7_3},
  author = {Lane, Christopher J.},
  editor = {Kuuliala, Jenni and Peake, Rose-Marie and Räisänen-Schröder, Päivi},
  booktitle = {Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material}
}

Abstract

Christopher J. Lane tackles the subject of vocation among French seventeenth-century Visitandine nuns in his article ‘Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns’. He does this by examining the nuns’ hagiographic death notices, which offer abundant biographical information. Lane finds that these necrologies reveal that different spiritual currents were present in Visitation convents: young women took the veil for ample reasons, despite the rigorist approaches to vocational discernment advocated by several authors.