The Devotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Maps and Graphs ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction 3
• Chapter One - Women and the Counter-Reformation in France 10
• Chapter Two - the Defence of the Status Quo (1563-1631) 23
• Chapter Three - the Teaching Congregations of the Counter-Reformation (1598-1640) 42
• Chapter Four - a New Approach: the Filles Séculières (1630-60) 74
• Chapter Five - the Filles Séculières in Transition (1636-1700): the Miramionnes of Paris, the Congrégation of Montreal 95
• Chapter Six - the Maîtresses Charitables (1660-1700): Three Case Studies 113
• Chapter Seven - Development of a Feminine Pedagogy 142
• Chapter Eight the Making of Communities 167
• Conclusion 193
• Appendix: Entries and Professions in the Teaching Congregations (1611-1700) 197
• Sources 201

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Maps and Graphs ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction 3
• Chapter One - Women and the Counter-Reformation in France 10
• Chapter Two - the Defence of the Status Quo (1563-1631) 23
• Chapter Three - the Teaching Congregations of the Counter-Reformation (1598-1640) 42
• Chapter Four - a New Approach: the Filles Séculières (1630-60) 74
• Chapter Five - the Filles Séculières in Transition (1636-1700): the Miramionnes of Paris, the Congrégation of Montreal 95
• Chapter Six - the Maîtresses Charitables (1660-1700): Three Case Studies 113
• Chapter Seven - Development of a Feminine Pedagogy 142
• Chapter Eight the Making of Communities 167
• Conclusion 193
• Appendix: Entries and Professions in the Teaching Congregations (1611-1700) 197
• Sources 201
• Glossary 203
• Notes 207
• Note on the Use of Sources 247
• Bibliography 255
• Index 271