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Nuns Without Cloister
Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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2009
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Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of mid-seventeenth century France and quietly broke the ecclesiastical and cultural barriers that opposed it. This book opens perspectives on the sisters' success through a politics of discretion and the introduction of creative variety in their lives in country parishes or in the urban orphanages, hospitals, and reformatories for fallen women of the ancien rZgime. Vacher's methodology, comparing the congregation's theoretical, prescriptive documents with evidence about the actual life of these communities in southern France, leads to the question of whether and to what degree succeeding generations grasped the original inspiration.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4342-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4343-6
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
428
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Religious Life forWomen in Seventeenth-Century France No access
Introduction to Part One: Le Puy-en-Velay in the Seventeenth Century No access
Ch01. The Founders No access
Ch02. Beginnings No access
Ch03. Early Growth No access
Conclusion to Part One:The Genesis and Its Fruit No access
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Introduction to Part Two:Expansion in the Seventeenthand Eighteenth Centuries No access
Ch04. The First PrintedConstitutions: Vienne, 1694 No access
Ch05. The Superior’s Role:A Key to Life in the Communities No access
Ch06. Structures of Daily Life No access
Ch07. Principal Houses and Soeurs Agrégées No access
Conclusion to Part II:Father Médaille’s Legacy No access
Supporting Documents No access Pages 321 - 350
Appendix 1. The Original Documents of the Sistersof St. Joseph Presented in Two Tables No access Pages 351 - 356
Appendix 2. Data Concerning Father Jean-PierreMédaille from the TriennialCatalogues Archives of theSociety of Jesus, Rome No access Pages 357 - 366
Appendix 3. Remarks on the Manuscript from theHouse of Le Puy (Ms A, ca. 1690) No access Pages 367 - 372
Appendix 4. Traces of Father Médaille’s EucharisticLetter at Riotord (Haute-Loire) No access Pages 373 - 374
Appendix 5. Approximate List of the Communitiesof St. Joseph Established between 1649and 1789 Arranged According toFormer Dioceses No access Pages 375 - 380
