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Item La France italienne à Port-Royal(Société des Amis de Port-Royal, 2024) Kostroun, DaniellaThe expression “Italian France” refers to the influence of Italian immigrants in France at the end of the sixteenth century and in the first half of the seventeenth century. This article focuses on two families of bankers which had links with one another, the Gondis and the Zamettis (or Zamets). From the outset, the Gondis encouraged Angélique in her Cistercian reform, then helped her to carry out the transfer to Paris and establish the Institut du Saint-Sacrement. They supported her with the help of Sébastien Zamet, the bishop of Langres and their ally. Later, between 1640 and 1660, accusations of heresy against Port-Royal coincided with initiatives against the Gondis by Richelieu and then Mazarin. Both the growth of Port-Royal and its persecution were always linked to the fate of these Italian families in France.Item Gendering French History: The Significance of Karen Offen's Books on the Woman Question(Michigan Publishing, 2025) Clark, Linda L.; Kostroun, Daniella; Accampo, Elinor; Kimble, Sara L.; Pedersen, Jean Elisabeth; Offen, KarenA roundtable discussion of Karen Offen's The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 and Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 and 2018, respectively). Participants in the roundtable address a range of issues, particular and general. How has Offen enlarged historians’ understanding of debates on women’s roles in French culture, the family, and work, and the interrelatedness of such debates? Why were biomedical issues and educational issues also political issues? What was distinctive about the French debate on the woman question, as compared to that in other countries, and what was distinctive about French feminism? What are the implications of Offen’s work for the traditional general narrative of French history? The roundtable closes with a response from Offen.Item Le corps et le cœur : comment équilibrer ces deux vaisseaux à Port-Royal ?(Société des Amis de Port-Royal, 2023) Kostroun, DaniellaThis paper proposes that the Port-Royal nuns imagined their bodies as oil lamps. This image derives from the Galenic theory of the body as a vessel of fluids and from the nuns’ descriptions of the body in their Constitutions. The Constitutions frequently evoke Augustine of Hippo’s concept of a burning heart and Bernard of Clairvaux’s concept of the Holy Spirit as a divine unction. An image of the perfect nun emerges as one who keeps her heart well-oiled with divine unction and well-lit with the spirit of charity, so that it stays suspended above the dark humors of her corruptible body. The Constitution’s call for the nuns’ constant vigilance over their burning hearts evokes the parable of the Wise and Foolish virgins, further inviting a comparison between their bodies and oil lamps.Item Nouvelles perspectives sur la vie monastique à Port-Royal : découverte d’une ancienne version des Constitutions(Société des Amis de Port-Royal, 2023) Kostroun, DaniellaThis article examines a recently discovered manuscript of the Constitutions de Port-Royal dating from 1645. It is now the earliest-known copy of the Constitutions. This paper describes the main highlights of the 1645 manuscript and compares it against the 1648 variant at the BnF, which was previously the earliest known variant. A highlight of the manuscript is an Avant-Propos crediting Saint-Cyran as the author of the Constitutions. Changes between the two manuscripts reveal that the nuns rewrote most of the chapters having to do with the spaces of the convent (le parloir, le chapitre, etc.) and of the officers (abbess, sous-prieure, etc). They also show that the nuns removed practices that were not part of the Benedictine Rule and added in Cistercian customs. The article concludes that the Constitutions were originally written for the Augustinian Rule and were later adapted to the Rule of Saint Benedict.Item Editors' Note: March 2021(IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2021) Guiliano, Jennifer; Risam, Roopika; Clement, Tanya; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Editors' Note: January 2021(IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2021) Risam, Roopika; Guiliano, Jennifer; Levi, Amalia S.; Chesner, Michelle; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Editors' Note: May 2021(IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2021) Risam, Roopika; Guiliano, Jennifer; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Editors' Note: February 2021(IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2021) Guiliano, Jennifer; Risam, Roopika; Clement, Tanya; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Editors' Note: September 2021(IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2021) Risam, Roopika; Guiliano, Jennifer; Caton Lingold, Mary; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Editors' Note: June 2021(IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2021) Risam, Roopika; Guiliano, Jennifer; History, School of Liberal Arts