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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780807831229
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