Convent reform and the Cuban context -- Private lives in common spaces : Santa Clara, 1671-1769 -- A respite from common-life reforms : Santa Clara, 1770-1782 -- Common-life reform : Santa Clara, 1782-1783 -- Orthodox convent reform and progressive social measures, 1784-1796 -- Transforming the role of convents in Havana, 1796-1807
Summary
Catholicism underwent momentous change as it moved to the modern era and the relatively new colonial environments of North America and the Caribbean. Critical to this evolution was the role of women in religion. The author examines the impact of the 18th-century European Enlightenment on the lives of nuns in colonial Cuba and New Orleans, both crucial centres of Catholicism where women had significant influence
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