THE DEVOTES; Women and church in seventeenth-century France
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University, (1990). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 283. Notes, sources, bibliography, index. Illustrated with pictures, graphs and maps.Top edge little spotted, o/w a nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. Item #43616
Religious women, formerly cloistered, gradually extended the boundaries decreed for them and became educators and founders of hospitals, orphanages, asylums and poorhouses.
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