Lived Religion in English Convents in Exile, 1600 - 1800: Accommodating the Ordinary and the Exceptional within the Rule by Caroline BOWDEN

“…Obituary notices commend many nuns for their assiduity in complying with these strictures, often over very long lives. …”
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An Unusual Case of Collagenous Gastritis: Incidental Finding in a Patient Presenting with Dysphagia by Chiu-Hsiang Liao, Maruf Saddik, Stephen Ip

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Do Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Accept Treatment of Questionable Benefit More Readily that those Who Are Pain Free? by Mark K Simmonds, Saifee Rashiq, Philip Klemka, Alexander S Sclanachan

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Tisser dans le désert : interactions et adaptations autour d’un ouvroir missionnaire au Mzab (1892-1950) by Mélina Joyeux

“…Both a technical training center and a craft production facility, it enabled the nuns to work with girls and women, the main targets of their mission. …”
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Genre, agentivité et performance du corps : la construction d’une rhétorique de l’exceptionnalité féminine dans des biographies spirituelles portugaises du XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles... by Helena QUEIRÓS

“…Beyond the essentializing specificities of female excellence, where chastity occupies a prominent place, this article will focus on the authors’ discourse on the virility of nuns, on its methods as well as its meaning. If male discourse serves an ideological purpose focused on feminine fragility, it is also worth highlighting the active part that these nuns take in the construction of these representations insofar as it is their agency that gives substance to discourses made on them.…”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…Considering the case of the remains of Breton Blessed Françoise d’Amboise (1427-1485), the analysis will be focused on the transformation process human remains undergo to be turned into relics, this process being implemented by specialised secluded nuns. A number of issues will be addressed, such as the types of relational processes and strategies (including protagonists, situations, material and ideological systems) that are most relevant for these objects to be assigned and preserve their sacred power.…”
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Factors Associated with Poor Asthma Control in Children Aged Five to 13 years by SL Mcghan, C MacDonald, DE James, P Naidu, E Wong, H Sharpe, PA Hessel, AD Befus

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Les femmes dans l’histoire du duché de Normandie by Elisabeth Van Houts

“…Three dossiers in particular will be discussed here: the grant of the castle of Le Homme (Cotentin) by Countess Adeliza of Burgundy to the nuns of Holy Trinity at Caen in 1075, the two versions of the foundation narrative of the church of St Martin at Auchy dating to the late eleventh century, and manuscript Paris BN Lat. 5390 (Ralph Glaber, Life of William of Volpiano; Adso of Montier-en-Der, The Origin and Time of the Antichrist and the sibyline prophecy) copied between 1060 and 1070.…”
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An Evaluation of the Responsiveness and Discriminant Validity of Shoulder Questionnaires among Patients Receiving Surgical Correction of Shoulder Instability by Kyle A. R. Kemp, David M. Sheps, Lauren A. Beaupre, Fiona Styles-Tripp, Charlene Luciak-Corea, Robert Balyk

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Les médiévistes et l’histoire des femmes et du genre : douze ans de recherche by Didier Lett, Camille Noûs

“…In turn, are mentioned, commented on and even criticised, studies on religion (life in monasteries, cultures of nuns, beguines and mystics, holiness, piety of secular women), masculinities, family (paternity, adelphic links...), couples in and out of marriage), sexualities (homosexuality, sexual violence, prostitution), justice, identities, emotions, economy and work, feminine power (queenship) and feminine cultures (literacy and aurality). …”
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L’inhumation des immatures in ecclesia à l’époque moderne : l’exemple de la nef de Saint-André-le-Haut (Vienne, Isère, France) by Vanessa Granger, Otilia Stoica, Delphine Linard, Audrey Gaillard, Bérénice Chamel

“…The Abbey of Saint-André-le-Haut (Vienne, Isère, France), founded by Benedictine nuns in the 6th century, is one of the city’s oldest monastic buildings. …”
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Brimer les corps, contraindre les âmes : l’institution du Refuge au XVIIIe siècle. by Christophe Regina

“…This was reinforced by the spiritual dimension since this institution was ruled by nuns. The women who were imprisoned in the Refuge included criminals, prostitutes, thieves, and dropouts, but also women who wished to live far from vice. …”
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A Prospective Audit of Patient Experiences in Colonoscopy Using the Global Rating Scale: A Cohort of 1187 Patients by Vincent de Jonge, Jerome Sint Nicolaas, Eoin A Lalor, Clarence K Wong, Brennan Walters, Anand Bala, Ernst J Kuipers, Monique E van Leerdam, Sander JO Veldhuyzen van Zanten

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L’inattendu du terrain by Claire Vidal

“…Based on a reflexive perspective on my ethnographic study, in this article I examine the reconfiguration processes of the Buddhist Academy of Putuoshan, where Buddhist monks and nuns are trained. Located off Shanghai, the island of Putuoshan is a major pilgrimage site in Chinese Buddhism. …”
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Entre Réforme Catholique et impératifs de survie : vie religieuse et activisme féminin chez les clarisses anglaises du XVIIème siècle exilées sur le continent by Claire SCHIANO-LOCURCIO

“…Does the particular situation of the English nuns influence the establishment of this new ideal of contemplative life?…”
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A morte e a memória no Mosteiro de Lorvão by Luís Miguel Rêpas, Catarina Fernandes Barreira

“…On the other hand, we will explore the ‘female agency’, analysing whether the testimonies gleaned from these rituals and liturgical practices –originating from a milieu crafted by and for men– permit insights into the active role played by nuns and abbesses in this sacred sphere.…”
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas by Víctor Sierra Matute

“…It examines her engagement with the literary academy, Casa del Placer, believed to have included nuns from Portuguese convents and women of the nobility. …”
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Poznámky ke vnímání řeholního života mezi barokem a osvícenstvím by Jiří Mikulec

“… The article deals with the development of attitudes to monasteries, regulars and nuns that can be observed in the minds of the members of baroque society (1650-1750) and of the leaders of intellectual elite in the times of Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century. …”
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Good Work and Good Works: Work and the Postsecular in George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by Brian Jansen, Hollie Adams

“…Saunders’s “Center for Wayward Nuns” is a potent metaphor in the sense that it suggests that doubt and lack of agency endemic to a fragmented postmodern world do not absolve us of our ethical responsibility, and thus the Christian overtones of Saunders’ work are engaged in a compelling kind of double-critique: both of the “un-Christian” social realities of the world in which Saunders’ working poor toil, but also of the kind of extremist, fundamentalist—even corporatized—Christianity that may emerge out of those social realities.…”
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Domestic violence victimisation and its association with mental distress: a cross-sectional study of the Yangon Region, Myanmar by Johanne Sundby, Espen Bjertness, Lars Lien, Win Thuzar Aye, Hein Stigum, Berit Schei

“…Institutionalised people, monks, nuns and individuals deemed too ill physically and/or mentally to participate were excluded.Results A random sample of 2383 people was included in the analyses. …”
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