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The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796

by (author) Colleen Gray

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773532847
    Publish Date
    Aug 2008
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773532274
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578364
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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