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Convents and nuns in eighteenth-century French politics and culture / Mita Choudhury.
LIBRA BX4220.F8 C485 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Choudhury, Mita, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monasticism and religious orders for women--France--History--18th century.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women.
- History.
- France--Church history--18th century.
- France.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Authority in the eighteenth-century convent
- Martyrs into citizens : nuns and the resistance to Unigenitus, 1730-1753
- Despotic habits : the critique of feminine power in the cloister, 1740-1770
- The vocation forcée in French political and literary culture, 1740-1789
- School of virtue, school of vice : the debate on convent education, 1740-1789
- From victims to fanatics : nuns in the French Revolution, 1789-1794.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801441102
- OCLC:
- 54691666
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