English Roots and French Connections: The English Benedictine Nuns in Paris

J. T. Rhodes

doi:10.1017/s003419320001400x

English Roots and French Connections: The English Benedictine Nuns in Paris

Recusant History ◽

10.1017/s003419320001400x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 535-547 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. T. Rhodes

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Community Life ◽

Port Royal

Political and economic circumstances in Europe and the Civil War (1642–1660) in England so reduced the funds of the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai that they were unable to provide for the community. Against sound advice they went ahead with a filiation in Paris in 1651. Thanks to the contacts of Dame Clementia Cary and their chaplain, Dom Serenus Cressy, community life began in rented accommodation in 1652. They moved six times before being enabled to purchase their own property in 1664. This was made possible by the messieurs of Port Royal with whom the community continued to have close ties, although they never seem to have been tainted with Jansenism. Novices were always recruited from England and their dowries and associated gifts and bequests were essential, but the survival of several account books reveals the extent and variety of the support the community enjoyed in Paris.

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Rehearsing for Reconstruction: The Archipelagic Afterlives of the Port Royal Experiment

American Literature ◽

10.1215/00029831-8267744 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 92 (2) ◽

pp. 281-307

Author(s):

Todd Carmody

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Civil War ◽

Social Study ◽

Black Body ◽

Social Experiment ◽

Sea Islands ◽

Free Labor ◽

Port Royal ◽

Cultural Legacy ◽

Civil War Era

Abstract This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Port Royal Experiment, the Civil War–era social experiment in free labor conducted by Union forces on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Whereas literary and cultural historians typically focus on the “discovery” of slave spirituals by Northern missionaries and educators at Port Royal, this essay tracks how later writers, performers, and sociologists returned to the Sea Islands to reimagine the promise of free labor. The archive thus assembled includes Civil War–era ethnographies, memoirs, and reports; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling the disability category’s historical role in sorting people into work-based or need-based systems of social distribution, is commonly represented as disabled. Ultimately, the essay documents a dual development in US political economy as the marginalization of contraband slaves as capitalist laborers on the Sea Islands—the “failure” of the Port Royal Experiment—gives way to the consolidation of “black culture,” a success of a different kind.

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Rebuilding Jewish Communities after the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Relief Programme in Postwar Greece

HISTOREIN ◽

10.12681/historein.14583 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Nikos Tzafleris

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Significant Role ◽

Joint Distribution ◽

Humanitarian Aid ◽

Community Life ◽

American Jews ◽

Jewish Communities ◽

Communal Life ◽

The Holocaust ◽

American Jewish

In the postwar chaos of the Greek Civil War, the Greek state was practically absent in the effort to rebuild the country’s Jewish communities and provide for their particular, post-Holocaust needs. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee came to fill this gap. The JDC organised and handled the assistance from American Jews to their coreligionists in Greece, both at the level of distributing humanitarian aid and of reconstituting community life. The JDC played a significant role in reshaping the communal life of postwar Greek Jewry along American lines. This article is mostly focused on the immediate postwar years, when JDC officials sought to establish a network to help Greek Jews cover their most immediate and elementary needs.

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Religious and Social Participation in War-Torn Areas of El Salvador

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/166191 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 53-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ileana Gómez

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

El Salvador ◽

Social Participation ◽

Local Community ◽

Critical Element ◽

Community Life ◽

Land Distribution ◽

The Individual ◽

Salvadoran Civil War ◽

Culture Of Violence

The Salvadoran civil war destroyed local community life throughout the province of Morazán. Despite the peace accords, poverty, unequal land distribution, and a “culture of violence” demand structural and institutional transformations well beyond the individual moral regeneration offered by churches. Religion, however, supplies coping tools, especially for youth, women, and repatriated refugees. By focusing on local issues, furthermore, churches are fostering social participation among hitherto disenfranchised groups, a critical element in building an inclusive, robust democracy.

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Contexts

Pascal: Reasoning and Belief ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198849117.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 22-29

Author(s):

Michael Moriarty

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Historical Context ◽

Religious Thought ◽

Social Milieu ◽

New Science ◽

Port Royal

This chapter gives a brief account of Pascal’s life and of the scientific and religious contexts of his work. It discusses his social milieu, with its characteristic ethos, and points to the importance of the civil war known as the Fronde for his thinking about politics. It describes his scientific formation and his rejection of Aristotelian orthodoxy in favour of the new science propounded by Descartes. Pascal’s religious thought was deeply influenced by the Augustinian theology of Cornelius Jansenius, the development of which is placed in its historical context and the key tenets of which are summarized here. A brief history is given of the Jansenist movement in France, centred on the nunnery at Port-Royal and on the community that grew around it.

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