Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 46185
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Archambeau , Nicole,
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  • Title: Sister Resens de Insula and the Desire for Certainty
  • Source: Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence. Nicole Archambeau.  Cornell University Press, 2021.  Pages 144 - 162. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv12sdw0s.14
  • Description: Sister Resens de Insula, a nun at the Holy Cross Monastery in Apt, testified during the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel in 1363. When Delphine had spoken at the monastery in 1351, she had recognized within Resens a great sadness. The holy woman then spoke to Resens and gave her such consolation that the nun felt a reassurance unlike any she had experienced after repeated confessions. [Feminae editor]
  • Article Type: Book Chapter
  • Subject (See Also): Canonization of Saints Delphine de Sabran, Franciscan Tertiary Hagiography Miracles Monasticism Nuns Pastoral Care Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Colorado State University
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  • Year of Publication: 2021.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781501753664 (print); 9781501753671 (online)