TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rapley,Elizabeth
TI  - A social history of the cloister: daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime 
T2  - McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion
SN  - 9780773569416 (electronic bk.)
AV  - LC506.F8 R364 2001eb
U1  - 271/.903044 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Montreal, Ithaca
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins
KW  - Kloosterscholen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Nonnen
KW  - Dagelijks leven
KW  - Kloster
KW  - swd
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-369) and index; pt. 1. Two hundred years. The nuns and their world -- For richer, for poorer: the monastic system and the economy -- The dilemmas of obedience -- "Personae non gratae": Jansenist nuns in the wake of Unigenitus -- The decline of the monasteries -- Aftermath -- pt. 2. The anatomy of the cloister. Clausura and community -- The three pillars of monasticism: poverty, chastity, obedience -- Prehistories -- Novices -- "The servants of the brides of Christ" -- Of death and dying -- The Institut -- The Pensionnat -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Demographics of the cloister
N2  - In this book the author 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, she is able to provide a 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
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