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Gender and politics in early modern Europe

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Walker, Claire, 1965-
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Title Gender and politics in early modern Europe : English convents in France and the Low Countries / Claire Walker.
Publisher Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Creation Date 2003
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
Content 1. Female Monasticism Revived: Foundations and Vocations -- English convents refounded -- Choir nuns, lay sisters and factors affecting recruitment -- Vocations -- National character -- 2. The Monastic Family: Order and Disorder in the Cloister -- Nuns in the post-Tridentine church -- Women's power in early modern society -- The well-ordered monastic family -- Negotiating power: the realities of government -- 3. The Monastic Economy: Prayer and Manual Labour -- Financial position of the cloisters -- The ideology of work -- Spiritual work for profit -- Domestic work for payment -- 4. Beyond the Cloister: Patronage, Politics and Society -- Patronage: maintaining the monastic household -- Politics and the monastic household.
Series Early modern history
Extent xii, 247 pages
23 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990037057410205171

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