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Document Details : Title: De Augustinessen van Falcon en Vredenberg Subtitle: Een studie naar twee post-Tridentijnse vrouwenkloosters in het bisdom Antwerpen in de late zestiende en zeventiende eeuw Author(s): VAN THIELEN, Esther Journal: Ons Geestelijk Erf Volume: 92 Issue: 2 Date: 2022 Pages: 169-201 DOI: 10.2143/OGE.92.2.3290909 Abstract : From 1545 up to 1563 the Council of Trent was held, but what was the impact on cloistered women in practice? This article focuses on two contemplative cloisters in the diocese of Antwerp (the Falcon-cloister in Antwerp and the Vredenberg-cloister in Lier) in the seventeenth century. The article starts with an introduction to these two cloisters and to the decrees of Trent that concern nuns. A following chapter describes both instances of successful and unsuccessful application of the various decrees. Part four describes three forms of ‘agency’ which the sisters could wield: they could resist the application of the decrees, they could embrace and promote them (e.g. by asking clerics for stricter rules) or they could use them strategically for their own benefit. |
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