{"title":"Paris and Beyond","authors":"Bárbara Mujica","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt20q1xqn.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20q1xqn.8","url":null,"abstract":"Religious wars hindered the initial efforts of Jean de Brétigny to establish\u0000 a Discalced Carmelite convent in France. However, Pierre Bérulle, future\u0000 confessor to the King and member of the reformist spiritual circle known\u0000 as Paris dévot, favored the project. In October 1604, Ana Jesús founded and\u0000 became prioress of the first Discalced Carmelite convent in Paris. When\u0000 Bérulle decided to establish a second convent in Pontoise, he chose Ana\u0000 de San Bartolomé to head it. In order to comply, Ana, a white-veiled nun\u0000 (one who did menial labor), would have to take the black veil. Despite the\u0000 opposition of Ana de Jesús, Ana de San Bartolomé acceded to Bérulle’s\u0000 demands and founded in Pontoise.","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128581319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115153573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ones Who Stayed Behind:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124968400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drama in Seville","authors":"Bárbara Mujica","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.6","url":null,"abstract":"At the urging of Gracián, Teresa de Ávila (de Jesús) founded a convent\u0000 in Seville, naming María de San José its prioress. In so doing, Teresa\u0000 disobeyed the orders of the Carmelite General, Juan Bautista Rubeo,\u0000 who had only given her permission to found in Castile. Enraged, Rubeo\u0000 convened a chapter in Piacenza at which Teresa was ordered to remain in\u0000 one convent in Castile and make no further foundations. Felipe [Filippo]\u0000 Sega, the papal Nuncio, took the side of those who opposed the Discalced\u0000 expansion into Andalusia. In the meantime, María had to cope with a\u0000 disgruntled nun who denounced her to the Inquisition, and an overzealous\u0000 confessor named Garciálvarez, who subjected nuns to excessive\u0000 penitential practices.","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123539919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124270261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Bárbara Mujica","doi":"10.5117/9789463723435_concl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723435_concl","url":null,"abstract":"Personal writing such as letters tells us how individuals experienced\u0000 historical developments. The letters discussed in this book provide insight\u0000 into the psyches of particular persons involved in the Carmelite expansion,\u0000 notably María de San José, Ana de Jesús, and Ana de San Bartolomé. Not\u0000 all the convents founded by María and the two Anas survive. São Alberto\u0000 was closed in the nineteenth century, after the Portuguese civil war.\u0000 Influenced by the Enlightenment, Emperor Joseph II closed the Belgian\u0000 convents. The Antwerp community went to Lanherne in Cornwall. The\u0000 Brussels nuns migrated to Paris, arriving just before the French Revolution\u0000 abolished religious communities. Yet, many convents were reestablished\u0000 in Europe, and others were founded in the Americas.","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132492054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127461399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Was Ana de San Bartolomé?","authors":"Bárbara Mujica","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.12","url":null,"abstract":"Ana de San Bartolomé (García) was born in in rural Spain, the daughter\u0000 of landholding peasants. She was a loner and a visionary. She became a\u0000 novice at the convent of San José, in Ávila, in 1570, and met Saint Teresa\u0000 in the spring of 1571. After Teresa fell and broke her arm, Ana became her\u0000 secretary and traveled with her to help make foundations. One of Ana’s\u0000 most important functions was that of infirmarian, or nurse. In her letters,\u0000 Ana provides detailed explanations of some of the homeopathic cures\u0000 she used. Infirmarians, who were usually illiterate, white-veiled nuns,\u0000 rarely left records of their activities, but Ana’s letters provide a wealth of\u0000 information on health and healing.","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125803843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the Low Countries","authors":"Bárbara Mujica","doi":"10.5117/9789463723435_CH07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723435_CH07","url":null,"abstract":"Isabel Clara Eugenia, who ruled as co-sovereign of the Low Countries\u0000 with her husband, Albert of Austria, saw convents as a bulwark against\u0000 encroaching Protestantism and brought nuns of different orders from\u0000 France to make foundations, among them, Ana de Jesús. After founding in\u0000 Brussels, Ana founded convents in Louvain and Mons. The Mons project\u0000 was a challenge. Her letters show that she had difficulty coping with the\u0000 cold and did not find the Flemish women congenial. She also missed her\u0000 dear friend Beatriz de la Concepción. As she approached the end of her\u0000 life, Ana became obsessed with completing her translation projects and\u0000 other unfinished business. Around 1607, her declining health became a\u0000 major topic of her correspondence.","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134245898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The (Almost) Silenced Epistolary Pen of María de San José","authors":"Bárbara Mujica","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1985ws0.5","url":null,"abstract":"Teresa de Ávila had hoped that María de San José (1548–1603) would succeed\u0000 her as foundress of convents and head of the Carmelite reform. However,\u0000 María clashed with the Discalced hierarchy when the Provincial, Nicolás\u0000 Doria, sought to modify the Constitutions of the order. She and Ana de Jesús\u0000 appealed to the Pope in what came to be known as the “nuns’ revolt”, but,\u0000 in the end, Doria won out. María was imprisoned and eventually exiled to\u0000 a remote convent, where she soon died. María had received an excellent\u0000 education as a child at the palace of Duchess Luisa de la Cerda, and she\u0000 wrote many well-reasoned, legalistic letters defending her position.","PeriodicalId":158553,"journal":{"name":"Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130256851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}