| A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime Volume 43 Contributor(s): Rapley, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773522220 ISBN-13: 9780773522220 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Canada - General - Religion | Institutions & Organizations |
| Dewey: 271.903 |
| LCCN: 2001900812 |
| Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.46" W x 9.48" (1.58 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Contributor Bio(s): Rapley, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Rapley is adjunct professor of history at the University of Ottawa, and the author of The D?votes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France. |