Title: By force and fear : taking and breaking monastic vows in early modern Europe /
Authors: Schutte, Anne Jacobson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Vows History.; Profession (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) History.; Vows (Canon law); Dispensations (Canon law); Monastic and religious life Europe History.
Contents: Forced monachization, 1668-1793 : an overview -- Literary and historiographical contexts -- Elders and forced monachization -- Waging law in the congregation of the council -- Contracts and fear in monachization and marriage -- Witnesses to forced monachization -- Degrees of separation -- War and coerced monachization -- Continuity and change in forced monachization.