Emerging Adulthood? Religious Vocation and Age in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
Location
CSU 201
Start Date
12-4-2022 2:30 PM
End Date
12-4-2022 3:30 PM
Student's Major
History
Student's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor's Name
Chris Corley
Mentor's Department
History
Mentor's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
I am studying young women’s vocation to convents in France. To do this, I examined convent registers, which provide data on religious vocations between 1620 and 1790. I collected key information such as names, date of vocation, age at vocation, the living status of parents, etc. The total database includes over three hundred females from five different convents located in Burgundy (an eastern province of France known today as Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). I have identified an increase in the average age of vocation and possible trends related to family strategies. This data may provide insight into changing ideas on conceptions about youth and transitions to adulthood over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I further discuss possible implications of the data through analysis of royal edicts and ordinances, religious writings, and literary texts of the time.
Emerging Adulthood? Religious Vocation and Age in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France
CSU 201
I am studying young women’s vocation to convents in France. To do this, I examined convent registers, which provide data on religious vocations between 1620 and 1790. I collected key information such as names, date of vocation, age at vocation, the living status of parents, etc. The total database includes over three hundred females from five different convents located in Burgundy (an eastern province of France known today as Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). I have identified an increase in the average age of vocation and possible trends related to family strategies. This data may provide insight into changing ideas on conceptions about youth and transitions to adulthood over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I further discuss possible implications of the data through analysis of royal edicts and ordinances, religious writings, and literary texts of the time.
Recommended Citation
Sowe, Ya Fattou. "Emerging Adulthood? Religious Vocation and Age in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 12, 2022.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2022/oral-session-05/2
