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From Penitence to Charity : Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris.

When in 1570 the widow Marie Du Drac took to a life of godly devotion, fasting, wearing hairshirts, and doing good works at hospitals, prisons, and with the poor, her contemporaries thought her behavior bizarre. Her family and friends worried for her health. Although not a nun, this eliteParisian sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Diefendorf, Barbara B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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