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A rule for children and other writings / Jacqueline Pascal ; edited and translated by John J. Conley.
LIBRA BX4735.P37 A25 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pascal, Jacqueline, 1625-1661.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe
- The other voice in early modern Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2003
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jansenists--France--History--Sources.
- Jansenists.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 171 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, A Rule for Children, which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal. Readers will also find Pascal's devotional treatise, which matched each moment in Christ's Passion with a corresponding virtue that his female disciples should cultivate; a transcript of her interrogation by church authorities, in which she defended the controversial theological doctrines taught at Port-Royal; a biographical sketch of her abbess, which presented Pascal's conception of the ideal nun; and a selection of letters offering spirited defenses of Pascal's right to practice her vocation, regardless of patriarchal objections.
- Contents:
- Poetry (1638-43) 18
- On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1651) 30
- Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphemie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs (1653) 41
- A Rule for Children (1657) 69
- Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphemie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress (1661) 121
- A Memoir of Mere Marie Angelique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphemie Pascal (1661) 124
- Letters of Jacqueline Pascal (1647-61) 128.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226648311
- 0226648338
- 0226648346
- OCLC:
- 50920655
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