A rule for children and other writings / Jacqueline Pascal ; edited and translated by John J. Conley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascal, Jacqueline, 1625-1661.

Contributor:

Conley, John J.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

The other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2003

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jansenists--France--History--Sources.

Jansenists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, A Rule for Children, which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal. Readers will also find Pascal's devotional treatise, which matched each moment in Christ's Passion with a corresponding virtue that his female disciples should cultivate; a transcript of her interrogation by church authorities, in which she defended the controversial theological doctrines taught at Port-Royal; a biographical sketch of her abbess, which presented Pascal's conception of the ideal nun; and a selection of letters offering spirited defenses of Pascal's right to practice her vocation, regardless of patriarchal objections.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

The Other Voice in Early Europe: Introduction to the Series

Introduction

Bibliography on Jacqueline Pascal

Poetry of Jacqueline Pascal

On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs

A Rule for Children

Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress

A Memoir of Mère Marie Angélique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie Pascal

Letters of Jacqueline Pascal

Series Editors' Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-163) and index.

ISBN:

9786611125974

9781281125972

1281125970

9780226648347

0226648346

OCLC:

476227696