Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)

by Laurence Lux - Sterritt (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $156.72

  In an effort to avoid polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, this book analyses the reasons which led early-modern women to found new congregations with active vocations. Were these novel communities born out of their founders' rejection of the conventual model?