期刊名称：E-rea : Revue Électronique d’Études sur le Monde Anglophone
电子版ISSN：1638-1718
出版年度：2020
期号：18.1
页码：1
DOI：10.4000/erea.11123
出版社：Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
摘要：The precise direction given here in an undated manuscript for Novice Mistresses at the English Poor Clares demonstrates the intense regulation of daily life in the post-Reformation English cloisters established in exile from the beginning of the seventeenth century. It shows how individual awareness of every moment of every day was considered essential in order to dedicate a religious life fully to God: every task, however humble or menial, was important and meaningful. In this article, lived religion has been understood as every-day religion: that is the life of the community as experienced by the members, focusing on daily life outside Divine Office with the associated prayer and devotional life of the nuns. The article will first consider evidence in documents such as obituaries and community chronicles as well as prescriptive texts such as the Rule and Constitutions. When studying post-Tridentine monastic life it is important to include prescriptive texts, including instructional manuals, because of the close adherence of the English convents to these fundamental texts. Secondly, it will look at two areas of domestic work based on “how to” manuals. Here I have chosen cleaning and the preparation of food: daily tasks essential to the orderly existence of the convent and generally overlooked when considering life in a convent setting. Finally, it will explore areas of work which do not appear in prescriptive texts, when individual members appear to have used their skills within the spirit of the Rule, but for activities where they used their own initiative while carrying out their daily tasks, including looking after young children living in the convent as boarders or schoolgirls, and artistic endeavours.
其他摘要：Conventual life in the early modern English communities in exile strictly observed the Rule and Constitutions which governed each house. These not only set out in great detail how every part of the day was to be spent but specified the spirit in which both lay sisters and choir nuns were to approach their tasks: all their time was devoted to God in a spirit of humility. Obituary notices commend many nuns for their assiduity in complying with these strictures, often over very long lives. Nevertheless, there was room for individuality provided it was expressed in the right spirit. This paper examines some examples of how the unusual co-existed with everyday life in a monastic setting.
关键词：religion vécue; couvents; période moderne; règle monastique; discipline monastique
其他关键词：lived religion; convents; early modern; Rule; monastic discipline
