Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris
by
Barbara B. Diefendorf
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the institutional and spiritual revival known as the Catholic Reformation. Focusing on Paris, where fifty new religious congregations for women were established in as many years, it examines women's active role as founders...