1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460467403321

Autore

Clark Emily <1954->

Titolo

Masterless mistresses : the New Orleans Ursulines and the development of a new world society, 1727-1834 / / Emily Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8078-3903-5

1-4696-0106-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

271/.974076335

Soggetti

Electronic books.

New Orleans (La.) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Prelude. Old World Origins: Female Piety and Social Imperatives in Europe; PART 1. TRANSPLANTATIONS: THE FRENCH LEGACY; 1. Making a Match: The Ursuline Mission to New Orleans; 2. The Order Was Well Kept: Creating and Sustaining Community; 3. Inner Spirit, Outward Signs: French Feminine Piety at Work; PART 2. TRANSFORMATIONS: OLD WORLD TO NEW; 4. Differences of Nation and Mentality: Testing the Bonds of Community; 5. It Is the Custom of the Country: The Ursuline Encounter with Slavery

6. The Wages of Zeal: Change and the Convent EconomyPART 3. CONFRONTATIONS:  A CATHOLIC COLONY MEETS A PROTESTANT NATION; 7. The Republic Encounters the Nun; Epilogue. A Woman of Masculine Appearance and Character: Antebellum Anti-Catholicism; Appendix 1. Convent Population, 1727-1803; Appendix 2. Ursuline Slave Families; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482600703321

Autore

Jessenius Johannes <1566-1621.>

Titolo

De vita & morte illvstris et generosi viri, Domini Tychonis Brahei ... die 24. Octobris, Anni 1601 Pragæ desiderati, 4. Novemb. im templo veteris Vrbis primario, ritu equestri, honnorificentissime tumulati Oratio fvnebris, Iohan Iessenii a Iessen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Prague, : Georgij Nigrini, 1601

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([16] s. portr.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Det Kongelige Bibliotek / The Royal Library (Copenhagen).