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Nuns without cloister : Sisters of St. Joseph in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Marguerite Vacher ; translated by Patricia Byrne and the United States Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vacher, Marguerite.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sisters of Saint Joseph--History.
- Sisters of Saint Joseph.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (471 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, Inc., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The genesis of the little design
- pt. 2. Normative texts and actual life in communities of St. Joseph.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-401) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-50545-9
- 9786612505454
- 0-7618-4343-4
- OCLC:
- 700682189
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