Redefining female religious life
Subtitle: French Ursulines and English Ladies in seventeenth-century Catholicism
By: Laurence Lux-Sterritt.
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Ursulines -- France -- History -- 17th century.; Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- History -- 17th century.; Women in the Catholic Church -- France -- History -- 17th century.; Women in the Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the new phenomenon of the teaching nun; title: The improper institutions of troublesome women; title: Religious change and the politics of gender; title: Serving the church in the classroom; title: Pushing the boundaries of female ministry; title: Serving Martha and Mary : modus vivendi; title: No rebels : the teaching nuns' imitation of the cloister; title: To leave God for God's sake : the apostolate as self-abnegation.