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200 10$aRebellious nuns$b[electronic resource] $ethe troubled history of a Mexican convent, 1752-1863 /$fMargaret Chowning
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2005
215   $a1 online resource (315 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Introduction; 1. An Ill-fated Convent for a Pious Town; 2. The First Crisis in the Convent (1756-1762): Reforming Abbesses and Rebellious Nuns; 3. "Seminary of Discord": La Puri?sima under Phelipa de San Antonio, 1769-1772; 4. "To live happily and in peace within . . . their enclosure": Changing Relationships among Bishops, Abbesses, and Nuns, 1772-1792; 5. Phelipa's Vision Triumphant: The Abolition of the Vida Comu?n; 6. La Puri?sima after Independence: Toward Extinction; Epilogue: The Convent of La Puri?sima Concepcio?n in Post-Reform Mexico; Appendix: Bishops and Abbesses, 1756-1863
327   $aBibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y
330   $aNuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the church to be mysterious. Great care was taken to prevent the ""scandal"" of factionalism in thenunneries from becoming widely known.  This has made it very difficult to reconstruct the battles fought, the issues debated, and the relationships tested in such convents. Margaret Chowning has discovered a treasure-trove of documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that wracked theconvent of La P
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