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Author Rapley, Elizabeth
Title A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime
Work Type Book in a Series
Language English
Publication Date 2001
Keywords nuns, monastic system and economy, Jansenist nuns, decline of monastaries, anatomy of the cloister, novice, the Institut, the Pensionnat
Citation Rapley, Elizabeth. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.
Identity female|adolescent|adult|choirboy|novice|monastic|
Other Identity choir nuns
Milieu monastery|
Flourished 1500s|1510s|1520s|1530s|1540s|1550s|1560s|1570s|1580s|1590s|1600s|1610s|1620s|1630s|1640s|1650s|
Region regiongeneral|
Illustrations incunabula|
Record Number 95



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