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Redefining female religious life : French Ursulines and English Ladies in seventeenth-century Catholicism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lux-Sterritt, Laurence
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Series:Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.
Subjects:
Ursulines > France > History > 17th century.
Women in the Catholic Church > France > History > 17th century.
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary > History > 17th century.
Women in the Catholic Church > England > History > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the new phenomenon of the teaching nun
  • The improper institutions of troublesome women
  • Religious change and the politics of gender
  • Serving the church in the classroom
  • Pushing the boundaries of female ministry
  • Serving Martha and Mary : Modus Vivendi
  • Modernity and tradition : imitating the cloister
  • To leave God for God's sake : the apostolate as self-abnegation.