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By Patricia Brace
March 27, 2003
Elizabeth Tyrwhit's 1574 Morning and Euening Praiers is a collection of private prayers, a class of book that grew in both popularity and volume with the establishment of Protestantism in England from the mid-century on. These prayers first appeared in a tiny gilt girdle-book alongside the Litany, ...
By Frans Korsten
December 23, 2002
The history of the angelicall virgin glorious S.Clare (Douai 1635) is a translation by 'Sister Magdalen' of a work by the Franciscan priest François Hendricq, Vie admirable de madame S. Claire fondatrice des Pauvres Clairesses (1631). In its turn Hendricq's book is largely a translation of parts ...
By Jos Blom
February 06, 2003
The declarations and ordinances made upon the rule of our holy mother S.Clare is an English translation of papal pronouncements upon the rules governing the convents of the Franciscan Order of St Clare. Elizabeth Evelinge's 176-page English version was published by one of the most prolific presses ...
By Amelia A. Zurcher
April 28, 2003
An Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus is Judith Man's English translation of a 1623 French work by Nicolas Coeffeteau, Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis, which is itself an abridgement and translation of one of the most widely read fictional works of the seventeenth century, ...
By Frans Blom
December 23, 2002
Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the ...
By Betty S. Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott
April 28, 2003
Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Three consists of five volumes of writings translated by early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Elizabeth Tyrwhit Volume 2: Judith Man Volume 3: Elizabeth Evelinge I Volume 4: Pudentiana Deacon Volume 5: Elizabeth ...
