Cuban Convents in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807 [electronic resource] /
Clune, John J.(John James)
Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
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.
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Convents
Monastic and religious life of women