Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

by Kristina Bross and Mita Choudhury

Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441102
• ISBN13: 9780801441103
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher