Masterless mistresses : the New Orleans Ursulines and the development of a new world society, 1727-1834 / Emily Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Emily, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.).

Ursulines--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Ursulines.

History.

New Orleans (La.)--Church history.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, [2007]

Summary:

During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance and authority in seventeenth-century France, the New World was less welcoming. Emily Clark explores the transformations required of the Ursulines as their distinctive female piety collided with slave society, Spanish colonial rule, and Protestant hostility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807831229

0807831220

9780807858226

0807858226

OCLC:

74029192