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Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns

Daniella Kostroun 2011 ;ISBN: 9781107000452 ;ISBN: 1107000459 ;ISBN: 9781107674905 ;ISBN: 1107674905 ;EISBN: 0511976453 ;EISBN: 9780511976452 ;EISBN: 9781139044912 ;EISBN: 1139044915 ;EISBN: 9781107219830 ;EISBN: 1107219833 ;EISBN: 113903605X ;EISBN: 9781139036054 ;DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511976452 ;OCLC: 729166462

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  • Title:
    Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns
  • Author: Kostroun, Daniella
  • Subjects: 17th century ; Church and state ; Cistercian nuns ; Counter-Reformation ; Despotism ; Feminism ; France ; History ; Jansenists ; Patriarchy ; Religious absolutism
  • Description: Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism and the Cambridge School of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart of the Jansenist challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism; they responded to royal persecution with a feminist defense of women's spiritual and rational equality and of the autonomy of the individual subject, thereby offering a bold challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism.
  • Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 290
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9781107000452
    ISBN: 1107000459
    ISBN: 9781107674905
    ISBN: 1107674905
    EISBN: 0511976453
    EISBN: 9780511976452
    EISBN: 9781139044912
    EISBN: 1139044915
    EISBN: 9781107219830
    EISBN: 1107219833
    EISBN: 113903605X
    EISBN: 9781139036054
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511976452
    OCLC: 729166462
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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