Redefining female religious life : French Ursulines and English Ladies in seventeenth-century Catholicism
"This short study offers a contribution to the flourishing debate on post-Reformation female piety. In an effort to avoid excessive polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, it analyses the reasons which led early-modern women to found new congregations with active vocations."--BOOK JACKET
History
236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780754637165, 0754637166
60401742
The birth of the new phenomenon of the teaching nun
The improper institutions of troublesome women
Religious change and the politics of gender
Serving the church in the classroom
Pushing the boundaries of female ministry
Serving Martha and Mary : Modus Vivendi
Modernity and tradition : imitating the cloister
To leave God for God's sake : the apostolate as self-abnegation