This article explores how communities of female religious within the English sphere of influence in Ireland negotiated their survival, firstly in the aftermath of the Henrician dissolution campaigns of the late 1530s and 1540s and thereafter down to the early 1640s. It begins by examining the strategies devised by women religious in order to circumvent the state’s proscription of vocational living in the aftermath of the Henrician suppression campaigns. These ranged from clandestine continuation of conventual life to the maintenance of informal religious vows within domestic settings. It then moves on to consider the modes of migration and destinations of Irish women who, from the late sixteenth century onwards, travelled to the Continent in pursuit of religious vocations, an experience they shared with their English counterparts. Finally, it considers how the return to Ireland from Europe of Irish Poor Clare nuns in 1629 signalled the revival of monastic life for women religious on the island. The article traces the importance of familial and clerical patronage networks to the ongoing survival of Irish female religious communities and highlights their role in sustaining Catholic devotional practices, which were to prove vital to the success of the Counter-Reformation mission in seventeenth-century Ireland.

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协商宗教变革和冲突：现代早期爱尔兰的女性宗教社区，c.1530–c.1641

本文探讨了爱尔兰的英国势力范围内的女性宗教团体如何通过谈判获得生存，首先是在 1530 年代末和 1540 年代的亨利克解散运动之后，然后一直到 1640 年代初。它首先研究了宗教女性制定的策略，以规避国家在亨利镇压运动之后对职业生活的禁止。这些范围从秘密继续修道院生活到在家庭环境中维持非正式的宗教誓言。然后继续考虑爱尔兰女性的移民方式和目的地，从 16 世纪后期开始，她们前往欧洲大陆从事宗教职业，这是她们与英国同行分享的经历。最后，它考虑了 1629 年爱尔兰穷克莱尔修女从欧洲返回爱尔兰如何标志着岛上宗教妇女修道院生活的复兴。这篇文章追溯了家庭和文书赞助网络对爱尔兰女性宗教社区持续生存的重要性，并强调了她们在维持天主教虔诚实践中的作用，这对 17 世纪爱尔兰的反宗教改革使命的成功至关重要。