Overview
Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism and the Cambridge School of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart of the Jansenist challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism; they responded to royal persecution with a feminist defense of women's spiritual and rational equality and of the autonomy of the individual subject, thereby offering a bold challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism.
Full Product Details
Author: Daniella Kostroun (Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.430kg
ISBN: 9781107674905
ISBN 10: 1107674905
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 February 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
While of interest to scholars, the book's clear explanation of basic tenets and figures in Jansenism makes the work accessible to nonspecialists. Recommended. -Choice ...those who follow lines of power and social influence will find much here to digest. -William Beik, The Journal of Modern History
While of interest to scholars, the book's clear explanation of basic tenets and figures in Jansenism makes the work accessible to nonspecialists. Recommended. -Choice ...those who follow lines of power and social influence will find much here to digest. -William Beik, The Journal of Modern History
Author Information
Daniella Kostroun is currently Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the co-editor (with Lisa Vollendorf) of Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World, 1600–1800 and the author of 'A Formula for Disobedience: Jansenism, Gender and the Feminist Paradox', which appeared in the Journal of Modern History and won the 2004 Chester Penn Higby Prize from the Modern European History section of the American Historical Association.
