Who were the nuns? A prosopographical study of the English convents in exile in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

修女们是谁？

• 批准号: AH/F018312/1
• 负责人: Michael Questier
• 金额: $ 70.51万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF018312%2F1
• 关键词: Who; were; nuns; prosopographical; study

This project will make a comprehensive study of the membership of the English convents and the English members of Mary Ward's Institute established during the period when they were proscribed in England. These institutions with more than 3,650 (mainly English), members were all founded in exile in continental Europe. Preliminary research has shown that they were significant foundations with international connections. They have been little studied by historians and their documents and activities have remained largely unknown. Understanding the membership and supporting networks will allow us to recover the convents and place them in the mainstream of the history of the British archipelago.Most (twenty two) were enclosed convents with a further ten, mainly smaller, houses founded by Mary Ward and her followers. They were not isolated from the world: their contacts and networks spread widely, including members of the royal family of England, the archdukes of Brussels and members of lay and ecclesiastical hierarchies across Europe among their supporters. The nuns built substantial convents and schools, commissioned works of art and music, and created important libraries and centres of learning for women. They continued to attract members and all except two survived until recently. The research will carry out a full survey of surviving documents in conventual and public archives. Personal details of members of the convents and their network of supporters will be extracted for entry into a relational database. A representative selection of outstanding documents will be transcribed and entered in a separate database for qualitative analysis. The two databases will be linked to combine quantitative and qualitative analysis using tested techniques in a new way. The proposed project team brings together experienced individuals with the particular skills needed for the successful and efficient completion of the project. Michael Questier brings to the study his unrivalled knowledge of Catholic families and the politics of the period. Caroline Bowden has recent experience leading a funded project using qualitative data analysis software. She has worked extensively in conventual archives and established the website http://www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/index.html. Katharine Keats-Rohan is one of the most experienced historians in the use of prosopographical techniques in Britain with several large-scale projects completed. Jan Broadway has wide-ranging skills developing cutting-edge databases and publishing material on the web. Both of them are commended by AHDS for best practice. A PhD student working with the team will study the relationship between the English convents and political culture. Queen Mary is able to provide the necessary ICT support to the team. The history department has successful experience in managing a large scale database project as a result of the ESRC grant for the Borromei Bank project and has members with complementary research interests. The range of publications including online and paper delivery will make the results as accessible as possible to a wide audience extending beyond the academic world to include family historians. In addition to the databases, the outputs will include a biographical register of members of the enclosed convents, a volume of interpretive essays, a PhD thesis and a critical edition of a volume of annals. The project will both demonstrate the important role of the English convents in Europe and also provide sources, data and know-how for other scholars and interested researchers.

该项目将对英国修道院的成员以及在英国被禁止期间成立的玛丽沃德学院的英国成员进行全面研究。这些机构有超过3，650名成员（主要是英国人），都是在欧洲大陆流亡时成立的。初步研究表明，它们是具有国际联系的重要基金会。历史学家对他们的研究很少，他们的文献和活动在很大程度上仍然未知。了解这些修道院的成员和支持网络，将有助于我们恢复这些修道院，并将它们置于不列颠群岛历史的主流。大多数（22个）是封闭的修道院，还有10个，主要是较小的，由玛丽沃德和她的追随者建立的房子。他们并没有与世隔绝：他们的联系和网络广泛传播，包括英国皇家成员、布鲁塞尔大公以及欧洲各地的世俗和教会等级成员。修女们建造了大量的修道院和学校，委托制作艺术和音乐作品，并为妇女建立了重要的图书馆和学习中心。他们继续吸引成员，除了两个人之外，所有人都幸存下来，直到最近。这项研究将对教会和公共档案馆中现存的文件进行全面调查。修道院成员及其支持者网络的个人详细信息将被提取，以输入关系数据库。将对一些有代表性的未交文件进行转录，并输入一个单独的数据库，以进行定性分析。这两个数据库将以一种新的方式使用测试技术进行联合收割机定量和定性分析。拟议的项目小组汇集了具有成功和高效完成项目所需特殊技能的经验丰富的个人。迈克尔·奎斯蒂尔为这项研究带来了他对天主教家庭和当时政治的无与伦比的了解。Caroline Bowden最近领导了一个使用定性数据分析软件的资助项目。她曾在conventual档案广泛工作，并建立了网站http://www.rhul.ac.uk/bedford-centre/history-women-religious/index.html。凯瑟琳·济慈-罗汉是英国最有经验的历史学家之一，在使用人类学技术方面完成了几个大型项目。Jan百老汇拥有开发尖端数据库和在网络上发布材料的广泛技能。他们两人都被AHDS称赞为最佳实践。与该团队合作的一名博士生将研究英国修道院与政治文化之间的关系。玛丽女王号能够为该小组提供必要的信息和通信技术支持。历史系在管理大型数据库项目方面具有成功的经验，这是由于ESRC为Borromei银行项目提供的资助，并且具有互补研究兴趣的成员。包括在线和纸质交付在内的出版物范围将使研究结果尽可能为学术界以外的广泛受众所接受，包括家庭历史学家。除了数据库外，产出将包括一份封闭修道院成员的传记登记册、一卷解释性论文、一篇博士论文和一卷年鉴的评论版。该项目将展示英国修道院在欧洲的重要作用，并为其他学者和感兴趣的研究人员提供来源，数据和知识。