Abstract
AbstractIn contrast to the robust state of research on female Catholic monasticism in Central and Western Europe, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, the history of Orthodox and Greek Catholic convents in the Balkans and Eastern Europe remains a largely uncharted field of study. Although historical archives in those parts of Europe offer rich pickings of first‐class documentary material, the lack of up‐to‐date research methodologies in post‐Socialist countries, the current stunted condition of pre‐modern Slavic studies in Western Europe and occasional problems of archival access create obstacles against the development of this promising area of research. However, characteristic of a strong element of human interest, research on early modern women's monasticism of the Eastern Rite, has the potential to broaden the awareness of the place women held in European societies and cultures of the past and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of it at present.
Highlights
‘Nuns have recently attracted many fans’, we are told.[1]
Sophia Senyk’s seminal monograph that came out in the early 1980s still remains the only work of this scale in English offering a summary of female monasticism in pre-modern Belorussia and Ukraine.[9]
The Ukrainian scholar Oleg Dukh works on the Greek Catholic (Uniate) convents in Western Ukraine.[10]
Summary
‘Nuns have recently attracted many fans’, we are told.[1]. The truth of this statement, with regard to early modern Roman Catholicism, is evident from the sheer volume of publications in the last twenty years.
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