The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities

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Cover Table of 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 The elitist facelift of Paris 2 The dévotes and the spiritual facelift of Paris 3 Social problems and the reorganization of nursing 2 Portrait of Louise de Marillac: ensuring resources for moral management 1. The credible head: Louise de Marillac and the elite networks of the Company 2. The living saint: managing spiritual authority 3 The passive penitent: portraying orthodox power relations 3 Portrait of the Daughter of Charity: safeguarding the execution of moral management 1 Martha and Mary: conflict and reconciliation 2 Cloistered outside the cloister: managing spiritual position 3. Moderate Magdalene: devotional practices and social status 4 Superior saint of Jerome – justifying the mixed vocation 4 Portrait of the underprivileged: managing the ignorant substitute of Christ 1 Ignorant soul to be saved: motivation through prejudice 2 Jesus nursed: motivation through love 3 Creating the ideal underprivileged to protect the Company: substance of the moral management From conservative moral management to survival: conclusions Sources Note on vocabulary