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- author.

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Ursulines.

New Orleans (La.)--Church history.

New Orleans (La.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Prelude. Old World Origins: Female Piety and Social Imperatives in Europe; PART 1. TRANSPLANTATIONS: THE FRENCH LEGACY; 1. Making a Match: The Ursuline Mission to New Orleans; 2. The Order Was Well Kept: Creating and Sustaining Community; 3. Inner Spirit, Outward Signs: French Feminine Piety at Work; PART 2. TRANSFORMATIONS: OLD WORLD TO NEW; 4. Differences of Nation and Mentality: Testing the Bonds of Community; 5. It Is the Custom of the Country: The Ursuline Encounter with Slavery

6. The Wages of Zeal: Change and the Convent EconomyPART 3. CONFRONTATIONS: A CATHOLIC COLONY MEETS A PROTESTANT NATION; 7. The Republic Encounters the Nun; Epilogue. A Woman of Masculine Appearance and Character: Antebellum Anti-Catholicism; Appendix 1. Convent Population, 1727-1803; Appendix 2. Ursuline Slave Families; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908765-2-2

979-88-908765-3-9

0-8078-3903-5

1-4696-0106-0

OCLC:

680630419