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Cuban convents in the age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807 / John J. Clune, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clune, John J. (John James)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monastic and religious life of women--Cuba--Havana.
- Monastic and religious life of women.
- Convents--Cuba--Havana.
- Convents.
- Havana (Cuba)--Church history.
- Havana (Cuba).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John J. Clune Jr. examines the impact of the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment on the lives of nuns in colonial Cuba and New Orleans, both crucial centers of Catholicism where women had significant influence.
- Contents:
- Convent reform and the Cuban context
- Private lives in common spaces : Santa Clara, 1671-1769
- A respite from common-life reforms : Santa Clara, 1770-1782
- Common-life reform : Santa Clara, 1782-1783
- Orthodox convent reform and progressive social measures, 1784-1796
- Transforming the role of convents in Havana, 1796-1807.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3830-8
- 0-8130-4004-3
- OCLC:
- 746746857
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