Title The power of religious societies in shaping early modern society and identities / Rose-Marie Peake

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages .) Series Crossing boundaries Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies. Contents Acknowledgements -- Three worlds, three portraits: introduction. Studying the moral management of the Daughters of Charity: methods and sources ; Study in scholarly context -- 1. At the cradle: gender and power in seventeenth-century Parisian society. 1.1. The elitist facelift of Paris -- 1.2. The devotes and the spiritual facelift of Paris -- 1.3. Social problems and the reorganization of nursing -- 2. Portrait of Louise de Marillac: ensuring resources for moral management. 2.1. The credible head: Louise de Marillac and the elite networks of the Company. Louise, one of the Marillacs ; Great names, great works ; Cooperation beyond social boundaries ; Motivation of the elites ; Making good devotes -- 2.2. The living saint: managing spiritual authority. Embracing poverty ; The family martyr ; Upholding the Magdalen, subverting leader status ; The moderately fleshless woman ; The tender mother and exemplary sufferer -- 2.3. The passive penitent: portraying orthodox power relations. Reassessing the tormented soul ; Revisiting administrational talent ; The significance of submissiveness -- 3. Portrait of the Daughter of Charity: safeguarding the execution of moral management. 3.1. Martha and Mary: conflict and reconciliation -- 3.2. Cloistered outside the cloister: managing spiritual position. Contemplative foundations ; Mental enclosure through obedience ; Mental enclosure through control -- 3.3. Moderate Magdalen: devotional practices and social status. Preventing illusions of grandeur: catechization and education ; From animals toward interior angels: mortification ; Chastising the body according to social standing -- 3.4. Superior saint of Jerome -- justifying the mixed vocation. Superior to nuns, equal with first Christians ; The question of medieval predecessors and early modern models -- 4. Portrait of the underprivileged: managing the Ignorant substitute of Christ. 4.1. Ignorant soul to be saved: motivation through prejudice. Catholic conversion to gain salvation -- 4.2. Jesus nursed: motivation through love. Saintly poverty in the early modern context ; The Daughters of Charity in imitation of Christ ; Self-sacrifice and philosophical motives -- 4.3. Creating the ideal underprivileged to protect the Company: substance of the moral management. Only shamefaced ; The deserving poor as women's responsibility ; Able-bodied but poorly educated Catholic subject -- From conservative moral management to survival: conclusions -- Sources -- Notes on vocabulary -- Index Summary This book studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the acitivities aimed at edifying morality in the different strata of society revealead a Christian anthropology with strong links to medieval traditions. The book argues that this was an important survival strategy for the Company with a disconcerting religious identity: the non-cloistered lifestyle of its members engaged in charity work had been made unlawful in the Council of Trent. Moreover, the directors Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul also had to find ways to curtail internal resistance as the sisters rebelled in quest of a more contemplative and enclosed vocation. -- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover Analysis the Daughters of Charity, Catholicism, identity formation, social discipline, early modern France Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record; online resource viewed January 8, 2021 Subject Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul -- France -- History -- 17th century Catholic Church -- Charities. SUBJECT Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul fast Subject Women -- Services for. Poor -- Services for. European history. Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. Religious ethics. Christian communities and monasticism. HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. HISTORY / Social History. RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues. RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations. SUBJECT France -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051179 Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789048537976 9048537975

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