Nuns Without Cloister

Nuns Without Cloister: Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Nuns Without Cloister was written by and Marguerite Vacher. The 427 page book was published by University Press of America in 2010 (originally in 2009) with an ISBN 10 of 0761843426. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Nuns Without Cloister mentions 1 serial killers including Joseph Vacher. The author Marguerite Vacher has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

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 regime. Vacher's methodology, comparing the congregation's theoretical, prescriptive documents...