Susan E. Dinan
Ashgate
Hardback
200
2006
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. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France showing how they played a critical role in shaping the system and also how they were shaped by it.
Ashgate
Hardback
200
2006
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. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France showing how they played a critical role in shaping the system and also how they were shaped by it.