Masterless Mistresses
Subtitle: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780807858226
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Christian communities & monasticism; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; History - U.S; History: American; Louisiana; United States - Antebellum Era; United States - Colonial Period; United States - State & Local - South; female piety; slavery; Catholic nuns; anti-Catholicism; republicanism; Catholic missionaries; Afro-Catholic; Catholic education; colonial Louisiana; Ursuline convent; colonial religious history; French nuns; Old France; New France; female religiosity; gender and religion; Catholic Counter-Reformation; female monasticism; French Catholicism; female education;; History; United States - Revolutionary War; Women's Studies - General
Description: During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans and educated women and girls in literacy, numeracy and the Catholic faith. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, this work exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.