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Exile and Linguistic Encounter: Early Modern English Convents in the Low Countries and France

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Abstract

The history of religious migration and experience of exile in the early modern period has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Neglected within this scholarship, however, is sustained discussion of linguistic encounter within these often fraught transcultural and transnational interactions. This article breaks new ground by exploring the linguistic experiences of religious exiles in English convents founded in the Low Countries. Most women within English communities in exile were linguistically challenged; focusing on the creative ways these women subsequently negotiated language barriers sheds new light on female language acquisition and encounter during this period.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , Spring 2020 , pp. 132 - 164
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The author would like to thank Caroline Bowden, Marie-Louise Coolahan, John Gallagher, Alisa van der Haar, and Victoria Van Hyning for their thoughtful and constructive comments on earlier drafts of this article. The research for this article was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013 / ERC Grant Agreement n. 615545).

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Kelly, James. “Creating an English Catholic Identity: Relics, Martyrs and English Women Religious in Counter-Reformation Europe.” In Early Modern English Catholicism: Identity, Memory and Counter-Reformation (2016), 41–59.Google Scholar
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Lawrence, Jason. “Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?” Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Lux-Sterritt, Laurence. English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Majérus, Pascal. “What Language Does God Speak? Exiled English Nuns and the Question of Languages.” Trajecta 21 (2012): 137–52.Google Scholar
Murphy, Emilie K. M. “A Sense of Place: Hearing English Catholicism in the Spanish Habsburg Territories, 1568–1659.” In Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, ed. Macdonald, Robin, Murphy, Emilie K. M., and Swann, Elizabeth L., 136–57. London: Routledge, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murphy, Emilie K. M. “Language and Power in an English Convent in Exile, c.1621–c.1631.” The Historical Journal 62.1 (2019): 101–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Schneider, Gary. The Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500–1700. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Spohnholz, Jesse, and Waite, Gary K., eds. Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014.Google Scholar
Stevenson, Jane. Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stevenson, Jane. “Women Catholics and Latin Culture.” In Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (2007), 52–72.Google Scholar
Terpstra, Nicholas. Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van de Haar, A. D. M. “The Golden Mean of Languages: Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540–1620).” PhD diss., University of Groningen, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Hyning, Victoria. “Cloistered Voices: English Nuns in Exile, 1550–1800.” PhD diss., University of Sheffield, 2014a.Google Scholar
Van Hyning, Victoria. “Expressing Selfhood in the Convent: Anonymous Chronicling and Subsumed Autobiography.” Recusant History 32.2 (2014b): 219–34.Google Scholar
Van Hyning, Victoria. Convent Autobiography: Early Modern English Nuns in Exile. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vickers, Amy. “The Threat of the Convent: Seduction and Imprisonment in the Eighteenth Century.” BA thesis, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 2013.Google Scholar
Walker, Claire. “Combining Martha and Mary: Gender and Work in Seventeenth-Century English Cloisters.” Sixteenth Century Journal 30.2 (1996): 397–418.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walker, Claire. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walker, Claire. “Securing Souls or Telling Tales? The Politics of Cloistered Life in an English Convent.” In Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe: An Interdisciplinary View, ed. van Wyhe, Cordula, 227–44. Farnham: Ashgate, 2008.Google Scholar
Walker, Claire. “Exiled Children: Care in English Convents in the 17th and 18th Centuries.” Children Australia 41.3 (2016): 168–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wolfe, Heather. “Dame Barbara Constable: Catholic Antiquarian, Advisor and Closet Missionary.” In Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (2007), 158–88.Google Scholar
Worthington, David, ed. British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603–1688. Leiden: Brill, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar