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.

In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from th...

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Main Author: Rapley, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
Subjects:
Monasticism and religious orders for women > France > History.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Monasticism and religious orders for women
Kloster
Kloosterscholen.
Nonnen.
Dagelijks leven.
France
Frankreich
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. 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
  • pt. 2. 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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