A Social History of the Cloister : Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0773536132
ISBN-13
9780773536135
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint
McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2009
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
538 grams
Dimensions
22.10 x 14.30 x 2.70 cms
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A study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.
In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from these accounts, Rapley is able to provide a far more complex picture of women who, as a whole, were much less otherworldly than the older convent literature would have us believe, much less thwarted and unhappy than their detractors have long maintained, and much less irrelevant than some historians have assumed. She chips away at the dehumanizing stereotypes that have often been used to describe these nuns to show the essential humanity of these women.
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