Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, Who should control the female convent and women religious? These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their families, conflicts that were presented to the public in the context of potent issues such as despotism, citizenship, female education, and sexuality.T…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2699-6
- EAN: 9781501726996
- Produktnummer: 27663357
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 33'412 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 halftones
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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