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Redefining female religious life : French Ursulines and English Ladies in seventeenth-century Catholicism / Laurence Lux-Sterritt.
Van Pelt Library BX4543.F8 L89 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lux-Sterritt, Laurence.
- Series:
- Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ursulines--France--History--17th century.
- Ursulines.
- Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- Women in the Catholic Church--France--History--17th century.
- Women in the Catholic Church.
- Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary--History--17th century.
- Women in the Catholic Church--England--History--17th century.
- History.
- England.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754637166
- OCLC:
- 60401742
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