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UNINA9910777320503321 |
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Pascal Jacqueline <1625-1661.> |
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A rule for children and other writings [[electronic resource] /] / Jacqueline Pascal ; edited and translated by John J. Conley |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-12597-0 |
9786611125974 |
0-226-64834-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Collana |
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The other voice in early modern Europe |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jansenists - France - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-163) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Other Voice in Early Europe: Introduction to the Series -- Introduction -- Bibliography on Jacqueline Pascal -- Poetry of Jacqueline Pascal -- On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ -- Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs -- A Rule for Children -- Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress -- A Memoir of Mère Marie Angélique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie Pascal -- Letters of Jacqueline Pascal -- Series Editors' Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, A Rule for Children, which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal. Readers will also find Pascal's devotional treatise, which matched each moment in Christ's Passion with a corresponding virtue that his female disciples should cultivate; a transcript of her interrogation by church authorities, in which she defended the controversial theological doctrines taught at |
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