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Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism - Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 Laurence Lux-Sterritt New edition
Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism - Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Laurence Lux-Sterritt
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?
246 pages, Illustrations,
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 28, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754637165 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 521 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Caravale, Professor Giorgio |
| Series Editor | Keen, Professor Ralph |
| Series Editor | Warner, Professor J. Christopher |
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