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Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters repeatedly asked, "Who should control the female convent and women religious?" These sources chronicled the conflicts between nuns and the male clergy, among nuns themselves, and between nuns and their

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Author

Choudhury, Mita , 1964-

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501726996

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Christian

Updated

2026-03-25