Rebellious nuns : the troubled history of a Mexican convent, 1752-1863 / Margaret Chowning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chowning, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purísima Concepción (Convent : San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato, Mexico)--History.

Purísima Concepción (Convent : San Miguel el Grande, Guanajuato, Mexico).

Convents--Mexico--Guanajuato--History.

Convents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the church to be mysterious. Great care was taken to prevent the ""scandal"" of factionalism in thenunneries from becoming widely known. This has made it very difficult to reconstruct the battles fought, the issues debated, and the relationships tested in such convents. Margaret Chowning has discovered a treasure-trove of documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that wracked theconvent of La P

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. An Ill-fated Convent for a Pious Town; 2. The First Crisis in the Convent (1756-1762): Reforming Abbesses and Rebellious Nuns; 3. "Seminary of Discord": La Purísima under Phelipa de San Antonio, 1769-1772; 4. "To live happily and in peace within . . . their enclosure": Changing Relationships among Bishops, Abbesses, and Nuns, 1772-1792; 5. Phelipa's Vision Triumphant: The Abolition of the Vida Común; 6. La Purísima after Independence: Toward Extinction; Epilogue: The Convent of La Purísima Concepción in Post-Reform Mexico; Appendix: Bishops and Abbesses, 1756-1863

BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-029289-X

0-19-804020-2

1-280-70449-7

1-4237-3498-X

OCLC:

476011407