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The cloister and the world : early modern convent voices / guest editor, Thomas M. Carr, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- EMF, studies in early modern France ; v. 11.
- EMF, studies in early modern France ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Nuns' writings, French--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- Nuns' writings, French.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, [Va.] : Rookwood Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Multidisciplinary studies, by leading scholars, on the writings of early modern French nuns, complete with bibliographies, detailed index, tat prsent of research, checklist of original sources. Indispensable.
- Contents:
- From the cloister to the world: mainstreaming early modern French convent writing / Thomas M. Carr, Jr.
- "That in future times they will know our suffering for the love of God": Jeanne de Jussie's Petite Chronique and the creation of convent identity / Elisabeth M. Wengler
- Rules for writing: the "Dames de Poissy" / Gary Gerguson
- Familial and social networks in the later sixteenth-century French convent: the Benedictines of Beaumont-lès-Tours / Susan Broomhall
- Nuns, demons, and exorcists: Ventriloquism and the voice of authority in Provence (1609-1611) / Katherine Dauge-Roth
- Jeanne de Cambry: mystic and marriage counselor / Claire L. Carlin
- Factum or fiction? convent scandal, cloister, and publicity in the era of Louis XIV / Leslie Tuttle
- "Un trésor enfoui, une lampe sous un boisseau": seventeenth-century Visitandines describe their vocation / Elizabeth Rapley
- Convent parleys: listening to women's voices in Madame de Villedieu's Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière / Barbara Woshinsky
- L'esprit, obstacle à la saintetè? L'itinéaire de la carmélite Charlotte de Saint-Cyprien, dirigée de Fénelon / Pauline Chaduc
- Moines et moniales en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: les Bénédictins de Saint-Maur, Catherine de Bar, et la Trinité de Fécamp / Daniel-Odon Hurel
- A checklist of published writings in French by early modern nuns / Thomas M. Carr, Jr.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1886365644
- 9781886365643
- OCLC:
- 173498174
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