churchhistoryРоссийский журнал истории ЦерквиRussian Journal of Church History2686-973X2687-069XSilicea-Poligraf LLC10.15829/2686-973X-2022-102churchhistory-102Research ArticleИстория ЦерквиChurch historyЖенская проповедь в английском католическом сообществе XVI — XVII вв.Female preaching in the English Catholic community, 16 th–17th centurieshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9630-5903СерегинаА. Ю.SereginaA. Yu.

Серегина Анна Юрьевна — доктор исторических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник.

Москва

Anna Yu. Seregina — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher.

Moscow

aseregina@mail.ruИнститут Всеобщей истории, РАНРоссияInstitute of General History, Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation202229072022322449Copyright © Серегина А.Ю., 20222022Серегина А.Ю.Seregina A.Y.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://churchhistory.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/102

В статье рассматривается проповедническая деятельность женщин-католичек в Англии в XVI — XVII вв., отраженная в текстах различных жанров: биографий благочестивых дам-католичек, написанных их секретарями и капелланами, а также монахинями английских монастырей в Нидерландах и Франции, хроник и регистров этих монастырей, историй обращений монахинь и писем католичек. Изучение этих текстов позволяет заключить, что упоминания о женской проповеди присутствовали только в рукописных текстах, существовавших формально в частном пространстве и предназначавшихся для женской аудитории — для монахинь и их родственниц в Англии. Эти тексты были связаны своим происхождением с кругом английских иезуитов. Описания женской проповеди в них подчинены общим правилам. Женские наставления обращены к нижестоящим, детям, родственникам и слугам, а не мужчинам равного с ними статуса, т.к. считалось, что для обращения мужчин в истинную веру необходимы рациональные доводы, к формулированию которых женщины неспособны. Показано, что это представление отражает гендерные стереотипы эпохи, а не реальность женской миссионерской деятельности.

The article is focused on the preaching and missionary work of the English Catholic woman in the 16th — 17th cc., as it was represented in a wide range of texts: biographies of pious Catholic Englishwomen written by their secretaries, chaplains and the nuns of the English convents in the Netherlands and France, chronicles and registers of these convents, conversion stories and letters by Catholic women. A study of these sources makes the author conclude that references to female preaching appeared only in manuscript texts that existed within private space and were intended for female audience — for the nuns and their female relatives in England and abroad. The texts were linked to English Jesuits. The descriptions of the episodes of female preaching followed some general rules. The Catholic Englishwomen taught or preached to only those below them in social standing: children, relatives, or servants, but never to the men of the status, which equaled theirs, because it was thought that to convert a man a preacher or a teacher needed to produce rational arguments, and women were not considered to be capable of this. It is shown that this view reflected the gender stereotypes of the time, not the reality of female missionary work.

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