Beatas, Demoiselles and the Spiritual Exercises for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Women. Manila, Vannes and Córdoba

Barthélemy, Sarah
(2026) Polymorphism and Polycentrism in Women’s Religious Engagement: Americas, Africa, and Asia, 1400–1900 — Location: Brussels – Louvain-la-Neuve (12.May.2026)

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This conference will examine the manifestations of religiosity of women who were not fully considered by the Catholic Church as members of its body, such as beatas, consecrated virgins, beguines, bizzoche, penitents, tertiaries, puellae, as well as sisters of religious congregations, from 1400 to 1900. These women will be examined from the perspective of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. As many of these global experiences are closely tied to colonising states, Europe will only be considered in relation to these non-European cases. The aim is to integrate these models of religious life into the cultural, religious, social and economic history of women religious and devout laywomen, who have often been sidelined in favour of cloistered nuns. The long chronological period considered will highlight continuities and ruptures beyond the confessional age. The main objective of this collaboration between two international initiatives, ISHWRA (International Scholars for the History of Women Religious Association) and Sorores (SORORES. Les religieuses non cloîtrées en Europe du Sud, XII e-XVIII e siècles), is to look, on a global scale, at women who were engaged in models of religious life that have been under-researched due to the ambiguity of their status and their presence on the margins of monastic institutions, or because of the scarcity of sources.
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Barthélemy, S. (2026, May 13). Beatas, Demoiselles and the Spiritual Exercises for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Women. Manila, Vannes and Córdoba. Polymorphism and Polycentrism in Women’s Religious Engagement: Americas, Africa, and Asia, 1400–1900, Brussels – Louvain-la-Neuve. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/277026