Abstract
Benjamin Kaplan e.a. (eds.), Catholic Communities in Protestant States. Britain and the Netherlands c.1570-1720
Highlights
Joke Spaans and Mary Rowlands, centered on the role of women in both Missions
135 in the Netherlands: ‘spiritual virgins’, which led a semireligious life, took care of priests, copied nieuwe geschiedenis devotional books, taught catechism; the wealthier supported the recruitment of boys for the ministry by donations
Social and family networks connected them to priests
Summary
Joke Spaans and Mary Rowlands, centered on the role of women in both Missions. Joke Spaans shows how important a role lay women could play. England did not have any ‘spiritual virgins’, women were able to play similar roles: some women belonging to the gentry harboured priests, working women kept alehouses where Masses took places; from the late seventeenth century on, with the growing toleration enjoyed by Catholics, women kept little schools while other worked as housekeepers for priests.
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