Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France
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Catholic Reformation
Catholic Reformation Church
Clement IX
Contemplative Orders
Country's Cultural Values
Country’s Cultural Values
De La Croix
De Marillac
De Sales
early modern France
Early Seventeenth Century France
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female religious orders
Foundling Home
Galley Slaves
Home Town
Le Place De
Louise De Marillac
Non-cloistered Status
Religious Congregations
religious nursing history
seventeenth-century French poor relief
Sick Poor
Simple Vows
Sister Servant
social welfare history
Superior General
urban charity work
Women's Religious Communities
Women’s Religious Communities
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754655534
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Susan E. Dinan is Director at University Honors College, William Paterson University, USA.
