Laqua, Simone, 1976- author.
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Part of the series Oxford historical monographs;Oxford historical monographs.
Notes:
- The reformation of convent life. Implementing enclosure in the city Visitations Multiple identities A new order in town — Female piety : women’s relationships with the living, the dead, and the divine. Civic wills and popular piety, 1600-1650 The parish church Memoria and the dead ‘The poor are always with us’ — An ideal marriage after Trent. the rocky road to marriage Married life ‘Solutions’ — Deviant women and the urban community. Servants Married women — A bishop, his priests,a nd their concubines. The bishop The clerics The women.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-208) and index.
- Examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the counter-reformation in the northern German city of Münster, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences but returned to Catholicism after the defeat of radical reformers.
Subjects:
- Counter-Reformation — Germany — Münster in Westfalen.
- Women — Religious life — Germany — Münster in Westfalen.
- Women — Germany — Münster in Westfalen — Social conditions.
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