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A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime: Volume 2 (NONE)
Elizabeth Rapley
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Description for A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime: Volume 2 (NONE)
paperback. 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. Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HB; HRAX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 538.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773536135
SKU
V9780773536135
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About Elizabeth Rapley
Elizabeth Rapley is adjunct professor of history at the University of Ottawa, and the author of The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France.
Reviews for A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime: Volume 2 (NONE)
"A serious advance in state-of-the-art research. Rapley's scholarship is exceedingly sound. She thinks in such stimulating and logical ways that the exercise is never tedious, always intellectually challenging and, above all, interesting ... The extent of the research is prodigious and Rapley is so familiar with her vast documentation that she's been able to construct a new and more comprehensive ... Read more