CfP: Women’s Active Religious Communities in Early Modern Europe and Beyond

Organizers: Liise Lehtsalu, Brown University, and Sarah Moran, Universities of Bern and Antwerp Women’s Active Religious Communities in Early Modern Europe and Beyond Despite early modern church authorities’ ambivalence towards unenclosed, active female religious communities, such communities proliferated and thrived in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. They offered women access to a religious lifestyle and identity, as well as career options in teaching, healthcare, and administration. These institutions were thus not just central in the lives of their members but also played major social roles […]