Breaking the rules: the emergence of the active female apostolate in early seventeenth-century France

<p>French religious life in the mid-seventeenth century was conspicuous for its revolutionary reversal of Tridentine prescriptions enforcing strict claustration upon women religious. In the process modes of female piety changed from contemplative to active within the development of a number of...

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Main Author: Manning, R
Other Authors: Hufton, O
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2006
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