Women And Poor Relief In Seventeenth Century France

Author : Susan E. Dinan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351872294

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Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France by Susan E. Dinan Pdf

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of Catholic religious women remained uncloistered. They lived in private houses in the cities and towns of France, offering medical care, religious instruction and alms to the sick and the poor; by the end of the century, they were France's premier organization of nurses. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France - the author shows how they played a critical role in shaping the system, and also how they were shaped by it. The study also examines the complicated relationship of the Daughters of Charity to the Catholic church of the time, analyzing it not only for what light it can shed on the history of the community, but also for what it can tell us about the Catholic Reformation more generally.

Author : Susan E. Dinan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351872300

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Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France by Susan E. Dinan Pdf

Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of Catholic religious women remained uncloistered. They lived in private houses in the cities and towns of France, offering medical care, religious instruction and alms to the sick and the poor; by the end of the century, they were France's premier organization of nurses. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France - the author shows how they played a critical role in shaping the system, and also how they were shaped by it. The study also examines the complicated relationship of the Daughters of Charity to the Catholic church of the time, analyzing it not only for what light it can shed on the history of the community, but also for what it can tell us about the Catholic Reformation more generally.

Author : Wendy Gibson,Kevin D. Lam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349200672

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Women In 17th Century France by Wendy Gibson,Kevin D. Lam Pdf

This book aims to trace the life of the seventeenth-century Frenchwoman from cradle to the grave through mainly contemporary primary sources which include just about everything from collections of laws to traveller's tales. Rather than reworking and refuting the twentieth-century experts in the field, the author works directly through from birth and childhood through matrimony, women at work, and in political life, manners and religion to conclusive death.

Author : Wendy Gibson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Women
ISBN : 0312023472

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Women in Seventeenth-century France by Wendy Gibson Pdf

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0804709726

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Society and Culture in Early Modern France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.

Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137568496

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Ruling Women, Volume 1 by Derval Conroy Pdf

Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gynæcocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly) the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. In Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France, the first volume of the two-volume study, the author examines the dominant discourse which excludes women from political authority before turning to the configuration of women and rulership in the pro-woman and egalitarian discourses of the period. Highly readable and engaging, Conroy’s work will appeal to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism, in addition to scholars of seventeenth-century literature and history of ideas.

Author : Elizabeth Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0773511016

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The DŽvotes by Elizabeth Rapley Pdf

An account of the feminization of the Church in 17th-century France and as far abroad as New France. This book is intended for students of 17th century France, historians of religion and gender.

Author : Carolyn C. Lougee,Carolyn Lougee Chappell
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0691052395

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Le Paradis De Femmes by Carolyn C. Lougee,Carolyn Lougee Chappell Pdf

The Description for this book, Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France, will be forthcoming.

Author : Patricia Francis Cholakian
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137357

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Women and the Politics of Self-representation in Seventeenth-century France by Patricia Francis Cholakian Pdf

"This book is an exploration of six neglected and under-valued self-narratives composed in the period stretching from the reign of Henri IV through that of Louis XIV. Cholakian reads these self-narratives as gestures of political resistance to the marginalization of women during the ancient regime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : C. Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230595545

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Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe by C. Walker Pdf

This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the nuns' membership of both the English Catholic community and the continental Catholic Church, it argues that despite strict monastic enclosure and exile, they nevertheless engaged actively in the spiritual and political controversies of their day. The book will add much to our understanding of women's power in early modern Europe, and offer an insight into a previously ignored section of English society.

Author : David Andress
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003823988

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The Routledge Handbook of French History by David Andress Pdf

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "Francia," through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past. Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today. From the ravages of the Vikings to the role of gastronomy in the definition of French culture, from Caribbean slavery to the place of Algerians in present-day France, from the role of French queens in medieval diplomacy to the youth-culture explosion of the 1960s and the explosions of France’s nuclear weapons program, this handbook provides accessible summaries and selected further reading to explore any and all of these issues further, in the classroom and beyond.

Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137568489

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Ruling Women, Volume 2 by Derval Conroy Pdf

Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy’s work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.

Author : Emily Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134772964

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Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age, 1550-1900 by Emily Clark Pdf

Bringing the study of early modern Christianity into dialogue with Atlantic history, this collection provides a longue durée investigation of women and religion within a transatlantic context. Taking as its starting point the work of Natalie Zemon Davis on the effects of confessional difference among women in the age of religious reformations, the volume expands the focus to broader temporal and geographic boundaries. The result is a series of essays examining the effects of religious reform and revival among women in the wider Atlantic world of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa from 1550 to 1850. Taken collectively, the essays in this volume chart the extended impact of confessional divergence on women over time and space, and uncover a web of transatlantic religious interaction that significantly enriches our understanding of the unfolding of the Atlantic World. Divided into three sections, the volume begins with an exploration of ’Old World Reforms’ looking afresh at the impact of confessional change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries upon the lives of European women. Part two takes this forward, tracing the adaptation of European religious forms within Africa and the Americas. The third and final section explores the multifarious faces of the revival that inspired the nineteenth century missionary movement on both sides of the Atlantic. Collectively the essays underline the extent to which the development of the Atlantic World created a space within which an unprecedented series of juxtapositions, collisions, and collusions among religious traditions and practitioners took place. These demonstrate how the religious history of Europe, the Americas, and Africa became intertwined earlier and more deeply than much scholarship suggests, and highlight the dynamic nature of transatlantic cross-fertilization and influence.

Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317098119

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Medieval and Renaissance Lactations by Jutta Gisela Sperling Pdf

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.

Author : Kathryn Norberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520313835

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Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600 - 1814 by Kathryn Norberg Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.