Description
The TOS Working Group examines women who live a liminal vocation between the religious and secular spheres. Traditional historiography has accepted the cloistered nun as the archetypal expression of feminine religious devotion. In so doing, it has relegated the numerous women who lived as religious in the world to the margins of historical society. A closer look at sources reveals that these women, who were known as house ascetics, beguines, penitents, bizzoche, and pinzochere (among other names), held a vital and vibrant role in their societies. The TOS working group brings together scholars working on this topic with the aim of collaborative research that transcends different time periods, regions, and disciplinary lenses. However, this subject is global and transcends both temporal and confessional boundaries to include women from Reformed Christian traditions and look for ways to incorporate non-Christian traditions, to push geographical boundaries with meetings focused on Latin America and New France. The group is working toward laying the framework for a new typology of women’s religious life and promote new scholarship on this topic through the new Book Series with Brepols.| Period | 18 Oct 2024 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Toronto, CanadaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Female Religious
- Patronage
- Networks
- Catholicism
- Ireland
- Europe