Rapley - Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime

A Social History of the Cloister

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A Social History of the Cloister

Daily Life in the Teaching

Monasteries of the Old Regime

Elizabeth Rapley

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Daily Life in the Teaching
Monasteries of the Old Regime

ELIZABETH RAPLEY

McGill-Queens University Press 2001

ISBN 0-7735-2222-0

Legal deposit third quarter 2001

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Printed in Canada on acid-free paper

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

McGill-Queens University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program ( BPIDP ) for its activities. It also acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Rapley, Elizabeth

A social history of the cloister: daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime

(McGill-Queens studies in the history of religion)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7735-2222-0

1. Monasticism and religious orders for women France

History. I. Title. II. Series.

LC506.F8R36 2001 271.903044 C2001-900081-2

This book was typeset by Dynagram Inc. in 10/12 Baskerville.

A map of the three teaching congregations appears on page

The author wishes to thank her husband, who has encouraged her and researched with her during all the years that she has worked on this book. Most particularly, she thanks him for the many patient hours he has spent bringing order and meaning to her data. She acknowledges the assistance given to her by a number of people in France, notably Chanoine Michel Veissire, Madame Marie-Thrse Notter, Ccile Amalric, ODN , and the municipal librarians in Montargis and Provins. She thanks the editor of the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History for agreeing to the inclusion in the book of material previously published in that journal.

Finally, she would like to express her lifelong gratitude to Beatrice Binney, RSCJ , a wonderful history teacher, to whose memory she dedicates this work.