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A social history of the cloister : daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime /
In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal, Que. :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from these accounts, Rapley is able to provide a far more complex picture of women who, as a whole, were much less otherworldly than the older convent literature would have us believe, much less thwarted and unhappy than their detractors have long maintained, and much less irrelevant than some historians have assumed. She chips away at the dehumanizing stereotypes that have often been used to describe these nuns to show the essential humanity of these women. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 379 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773569416 0773569413 0773584005 9780773584006 |