Daniella Kostroun

Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism

Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns

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Produktbeschreibung

Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism examines the role of the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs in the Jansenist struggle against absolutism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000452
• ISBN-10: 1107000459
• Artikelnr.: 32837935

Autorenporträt

Daniella Kostroun is currently Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the co-editor (with Lisa Vollendorf) of Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 and the author of 'A Formula for Disobedience: Jansenism, Gender and the Feminist Paradox', which appeared in the Journal of Modern History and won the 2004 Chester Penn Higby Prize from the Modern European History section of the American Historical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Jansenism as a 'woman problem'
2. Controversy and reform at Port Royal
3. Jansenism's political turn, 1652-61
4. The limits to obedience, 1661-4
5. A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-9
6. The unsettled peace, 1669-79
7. A royal victory, 1679-1709
Conclusion.