LEADER 04382nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910456529703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6318-1 010 $a0-8014-6317-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463174 035 $a(CKB)2550000000043050 035 $a(OCoLC)754715002 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10488673 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534740 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11359070 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534740 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520515 035 $a(PQKB)11390905 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138237 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28926 035 $a(DE-B1597)478659 035 $a(OCoLC)979740915 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463174 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138237 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10488673 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL767992 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000043050 100 $a20110125d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBy force and fear$b[electronic resource] $etaking and breaking monastic vows in early modern Europe /$fAnne Jacobson Schutte 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4977-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForced monachization, 1668-1793 : an overview -- Literary and historiographical contexts -- Elders and forced monachization -- Waging law in the congregation of the council -- Contracts and fear in monachization and marriage -- Witnesses to forced monachization -- Degrees of separation -- War and coerced monachization -- Continuity and change in forced monachization. 330 $aAn unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses-shaped by literary sources such as Manzoni's The Betrothed-are badly off the mark.Drawing on records of the Congregation of the Council, held in the Vatican Archive, Schutte examines nearly one thousand petitions for annulment of monastic vows submitted to the Pope and adjudicated by the Council during a 125-year period, from 1668 to 1793. She considers petitions from Roman Catholic regions across Europe and a few from Latin America and finds that, in about half these cases, the congregation reached a decision. Many women and a smaller proportion of men got what they asked for: decrees nullifying their monastic profession and releasing them from religious houses. Schutte also reaches important conclusions about relations between elders and offspring in early modern families. Contrary to the picture historians have painted of increasingly less patriarchal and more egalitarian families, she finds numerous instances of fathers, mothers, and other relatives (including older siblings) employing physical violence and psychological pressure to compel adolescents into "entering religion." Dramatic tales from the archives show that many victims of such violence remained so intimidated that they dared not petition the pope until the agents of force and fear had died, by which time they themselves were middle-aged. Schutte's innovative book will be of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe, especially those who work on religion, the Church, family, and gender. 606 $aVows$xHistory 606 $aProfession (in religious orders, congregations, etc.)$xHistory 606 $aVows (Canon law) 606 $aDispensations (Canon law) 606 $aMonastic and religious life$zEurope$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aVows$xHistory. 615 0$aProfession (in religious orders, congregations, etc.)$xHistory. 615 0$aVows (Canon law) 615 0$aDispensations (Canon law) 615 0$aMonastic and religious life$xHistory. 676 $a255.0094/09032 700 $aSchutte$b Anne Jacobson$0154162 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456529703321 996 $aBy force and fear$92471859 997 $aUNINA