Books by Nicky Hallett

Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings-chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry.

Talks about a source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume draws upon several sets of papers, which show that religious women developed an astute system of auto/biographical practice within a protean political situation.