the inner life of a seventeenth-century convent of English nuns in exile in the Low Countries

What is it about?

What we can learn about the inner life of St Monica's, Louvain, in the second half of the seventeenth century from sources connected with the circle of Catholic poets associated with Tixall in Staffordshire, in particular, letters exchanged between the abbess of St Monica's and a member of that circle, her brother in law.

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Why is it important?

There is a lot of interest in nuns' writing now, this adds new evidence for St Monica's, and also argues for the importance of music to convent life, which hasn't received so much attention.