This article examines the biographies and personal records of nineteenth-century Catholic nuns who worked in education, with a view to determining how they reconciled their individuality with the demands of religious life. Their resistance to rules, and the ways in which they wrestled with the vow of obedience, is examined. The roles of the Novice Mistress and the Superior in teaching and managing the members of their religious communities are explored, with particular reference to three orders of women religious.CUSHWA Centre, University of Notre DameIreland-Canada University FoundationSCoTEN
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This project traces the shared history between novices, nuns and “Colegio Girls” across national bou...
Conventual life in the early modern English communities in exile strictly observed the Rule and Cons...
Adding to a growing body of research on women and religion in English Canada, this historical study ...
This article examines the biographies and personal records of nineteenth-century Catholic nuns who w...
This paper examines the corporal forms of discipline and techniques of resistance exercised through ...
This dissertation explores the spiritual life of the Ursulines nuns of Quebec City as the central fe...
This article provides a review and critique of scholarship on female education in Ireland, arguing t...
Nuns' ambiguous position within patriarchy makes them particularly interesting subjects for a femini...
This study focuses on the Indian mission of IBVM nuns, and the role played by them in the spread of ...
This study analyzes the basic monastic contradictions that exist between sacred vows and social acti...
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–19...
The aim of my work was to cover the activity of the Poor School Nuns de Notre Dame since they have b...
England's Catholic religious minority devised various strategies for its survival in the seventeenth...
The thesis titled Nursing Care Provided by Nuns from 19thCentrury to thePresent Days is based on onl...
In 1954, when Sister Jean Frances, O.F., was completing her studies at Dominican College, she submit...
This project traces the shared history between novices, nuns and “Colegio Girls” across national bou...
Conventual life in the early modern English communities in exile strictly observed the Rule and Cons...
Adding to a growing body of research on women and religion in English Canada, this historical study ...