The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2007
- Category
- History, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773532847
- Publish Date
- Aug 2008
- List Price
- $37.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773532274
- Publish Date
- Oct 2007
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578364
- Publish Date
- Oct 2007
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Gray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congrégation superiors - Marie Barbier, Marie-Josèphe Maugue-Garreau, and Marie Raizenne. By exploring the implications of the hierarchies of power within the convent and providing a thorough analysis of the convent's relationship with the social, religious, and governmental structures that surrounded it - taking into account both medieval and Catholic Reformation Europe and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canada - Gray reveals the paradoxes inherent in the position of a female superior within the male-dominated sphere of both the church and the larger secular community.
About the author
Colleen Gray teaches history at Concordia University and is the author of The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796.