Conference Review

Carmen M. Mangion on Consecrated Women: Crossing Boundaries, Bar Convent, York, England, 18-19 September 2009

Lisa Padden on Women Religious and the Political World, Ireland, 22-23 August 2008

Sophia L Deboick on Consecrated Women: Towards a History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, London, 31 August 2007

Book Reviews

Blackmore, Henrietta (ed),The Beginning of Women’s Ministry: The Revival of the Deaconess in the 19th-Century Church of England (2007)

Bowers, Barbara S. (ed), The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice (2007)

Burton, Janet and Karen Stöber (eds.), Monasteries and Society in The British Isles in the later Middle Ages (2008)

Brekus, Catherine A., The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press (2007)

Bruno-Jofré, Rosa, The Missionary Oblate Sisters: Vision and Mission (2005)

Chowning, Margaret, Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863 (2006)

Clark, Emily (ed.), Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines 1727-1760 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006)

Clark, James G., ed. The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism (Boydell & Brewer, 2007)

Coakley, John W., Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)

Dinan, Susan E, Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity, Ashgate, (2006)

Doyle SCN, Mary Ellen, Pioneer Spirit: Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth (2006)

Doyle, Mary Katherine, Like a Tree by Running Water: The story of Mary Baptist Russell, California’s First Sister of Mercy (2004)

Evangelisti, Silvia, Nuns: A History of Convent Life, (2007)

Flaherty, Teresa A. RSM, Crossings in Mercy: The Story of the Sisters of Mercy Papua New Guinea, 1956-2006 (2008)

Gunn, Cate, Ancrene Wisse: From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality (2008)

Hall, Dianne,Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c1140-1540 (2008)

Hallett, Nicky (ed), Lives of Spirit: English Carmelite Self-Writing of the Early Modern Period (2007)

Hallett, Nicky, Witchcraft, Exorcism and the Politics of Possession in a Seventeenth-Century Convent 'How Sister Ursula was once Bewiched and Sister Margaret Twice' (London: Ashgate, 2007)

Harkrider, Melissa Franklin, Women, Reform and community in Early Modern England: Katherine Willoughby, Duchessof Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008)

Harrington, Anne M.,Creating Community: Mary Frances Clarke and her Companions by Anne M. Harrington(2004)

Heijst, Annelies van, Models of Charitable Care: Catholic Nuns and Children in their Care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 (2008)

Herringer, Carol Engelhardt, Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830-85 (2008)

Hicks, Leonie V. Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300: Space, Gender and Social Pressure, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2007)

Highley, Christopher, Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (2008)

Hoy, Suellen, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago’s Past (2006)

Kealy, Maire M, Dominican Education in Ireland 1820-1930. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007

Kenworthy-Browne CJ, Christina (ed.), Mary Ward, 1585-1645. A Briefe Relation with Autobiographical Fragments and a Selection of Letters (2008)

Keogh, Dáire, Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers (2008)

Knight, Mark and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (2006)

Koehlinger, Amy, The New Nuns. Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s (2007)

Lancaster SHCJ, Judith, Cornelia Connelly and Her Interpreters, (2004)

Lavrin, Asunciόn, Brides of Christ. Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico (2008)

Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A., Religious Women in Golden Age Spain: The Permeable Cloister (2005)

Leonard, Amy, Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany (2005)

Lux-Sterritt, Laurence, Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism (2005)

Lyons, Mary, Governance Structures of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. Becoming One (2005)

Makowski, Elizabeth, “A Pernicious Sort of Woman”: Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages (2005)

Mahoney, Irene, Lady Blackrobes: Missionaries in the Heart of Indian Country (2008).

Mangion, Carmen M., Contested Identities: Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales (2008)

Marotti, Arthur F., Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy.  Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (2005)

Mazzonis, Quericiolo, Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy.  Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540) (2007)

McCabe OP, Honor, A Light Undimmed: the story of the Convent of Our Lady of Bom Successo, Lisbon 1639-2006 (2007)

McCauley, Bernadette, Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?  Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City (2005)

McKenna, Yvonne, Made Holy: Irish Women Religious at Home and Abroad (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006)

McKeown, Maris Stella, Cabra Dominicans and All That Jazz: A Story of Dominican Sisters in Louisiana (2006)

O’Brien, Anne, God’s Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia (2005)

Raughter, Rosemary, The Journal of Elizabeth Bennis 1749-1779 (2007)

Raughter, Rosemary (ed.), Religious Women and Their History: Breaking the Silence (2005)

Redworth, Glyn, The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal (2008)

Richardson, Jean, A History of the Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo, New York, 1848-1900 (2005)

Shell, Alison, Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2006 (1999)

Shell, Alison, Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (2007)

Smyth, Elizabeth M. (ed), Changing Habits: Women’s Religious Orders in Canada (2007)

Spear, Valerie G., Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries (2005)

Spicer, Andrew and Hamilton, S (eds,), Defining the Holy: the Delineation of Sacred Space, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005, reprinted 2008

Stöber, Karen, Late Medieval Monasteries and their Patrons: England and Wales, c. 1300-1540 (2007)

Sullivan, Rebecca, Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, and American Postwar  Popular Culture (2005)

Van Wyhe, Cordula (ed.), Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe.  An Interdisciplinary View (2008)

Veen, Annemiek van der and Dolly Verhoeven, We Agreed to be Different: Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy 1960-2000 (2005)

Warren, Nancy Bradley, Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380 - 1600 (2005)

Watts, John, A Canticle of Love: The Story of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (2006)

Wetter CJ, M. Immolata, Mary Ward Under the Shadow of the Inquisition, 1630-1637, translated by M. Bernadette Ganne CJ and M. Patricia Harriss CJ.  With an introduction by M. Gregory Kirkus CJ (2006)

Wheeler, Michael, Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture, Cambridge (2006)

Wilkinson, Melissa Frederick, William Faber, A Great Servant of God (2007)

Winston-Allen, Anne, Convent Chronicles: Women Writing about Women and Reform in the late Middle Ages (2005)

Yardley, Anne Bagnall, Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries, (2006)

Other book reviews pertaining to the history of women religious can be found at:

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Hermitary, resources and reflections on hermits and solitude http://www.hermitary.com/bookreviews/
EH-Net Book Reviews http://eh.net/bookreviews/
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