A social history of the cloister : daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime

A social history of the cloister : daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime / Elizabeth Rapley.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rapley, Elizabeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion
Subjects:
Monasticism and religious orders for women > France > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Two hundred years
  • The Nuns and Their World
  • For Richer, for Poorer: The Monastic System and the Economy
  • The Dilemmas of Obedience
  • "Personae non gratae": Jansenist Nuns in the Wake of Unigenitus
  • The Decline of the Monasteries
  • Aftermath
  • Part two. The anatomy of the cloister
  • Clausura and Community
  • The Three Pillars of Monasticism: Poverty, Chastity, Obedience
  • Prehistories
  • Novices
  • "The Servants of the Brides of Christ"
  • Of Death and Dying
  • The Institut
  • The Pensionnat
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Demographics of the Cloister.

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