Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints—of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her—led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions. Highly acclaimed when it was first published as a revealing look at female religious life in early modern Europe, the book is now available in an abridged paperbound version with a new preface by the author.
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The Burdens of Sister Margaret
Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent; Abridged Edition
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Religious BiographiesTable of contents
- CONTENTS
- TO THE CURIOUS READER
- A NOTE ON USAGE
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- Prologue: Remembering
- BOOK ONE: How Just About Everyone Came to Loathe Sister Margaret
- 1. Beginning
- 2. Demons
- 3. Confessors
- 4. Despair
- 5. The Specialist
- 6. Pilgrim
- 7. Fulminations
- 8. No Balm in Bethlehem
- BOOK TWO: How Margaret Sought Her Revenge and Became the Watchdog of Reform All at Once
- 9. The Burden of Bethlehem
- 10. Favorites
- 11. Almsgetting
- 12. Worldly Ways
- 13. The Visitors
- BOOK THREE: How Margaret's Hard-Won Triumphs Partly Fizzled Out
- 14. Justification
- 15. Capitulation
- 16. Finis
- Epilogue
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
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