From Penitence to Charity. Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. - Diefendorf, Barbara B.
Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris (Europe)
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When in 1570 the widow Marie Du Drac took to a life of godly devotion, fasting, wearing hairshirts, and doing good works at hospitals, prisons, and with the poor, her contemporaries thought her behavior bizarre. Her family and friends worried for her health. Although not a nun, this elite Parisian spend hours every day in contemplative prayer and related to her spiritual advisors her mystical visions and sins against God. While Du Drac's ascetic practices and penitential spirituality were considered odd in her own time, half a century later they were broadly adopted by other devotes, also elite lay women, amidst the Catholic renewal following the Wars of Religion. From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the institutional and spiritual revival known as the Catholic Reformation. Focusing on Paris, where fifty new religious congregations for women were established in as many years, it examines women's active role as founders and patrons of religious communities, as spiri...
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2004Uitgever: Oxford, University Press, 2004.340 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0195095820ISBN-13: 9780195095821Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original cloth. xii,340 pp.; some ills.; 24x16.5 cm. Text in English. - (no dust-jacket, few lines in black ink on bottom edge) Otherwise in fine condition, see picture [From Penitence to Charity. Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris.]
