John Conley, S.J., Henry J. Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola University Maryland, has written widely on the convent of Port-Royal as the center of Jansenist resistance to church and king, notably in his monograph Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) and his translation and edition for the Other Voice series of Jacqueline Pascal’s A Rule for Children (University of Chicago Press, 2003).