Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture /

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Mita Choudhury explores the place of the nunnery & of nuns in French society during the 18th century, examining the long struggle to escape the dominance of male clergy & then the increasing pressure on their very existence in the years leading up to & during the Revolution.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Choudhury, Mita, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politieke ideeën.
Politieke cultuur.
Nonnen.
Kloosters.
Politik
Frauenkloster
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies.
Monachisme et ordres religieux feminins > France > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Monasticism and religious orders for women > France > History > 18th century.
Frankrijk.
Frankreich
France.
France > Histoire religieuse > 18e siecle.
France > Church history > 18th century.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Authority in the eighteenth-century convent
  • Martyrs into citizens : nuns and the resistance to unigenitus, 1730-1753
  • Despotic habits : the critique of feminine power in the cloister, 1740-1770
  • The vocation force in French political and literary culture, 1740-1789
  • School of virtue, school of vice : the debate on convent education, 1740-1789
  • From victims to fanatics : nuns in the French Revolution, 1789-1794.

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