Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Two hundred years. The nuns and their world
  • For richer, for poorer: the monastic system and the economy
  • The dilemmas of obedience
  • "Personae non gratae": Jansenist nuns in the wake of Unigenitus
  • The decline of the monasteries
  • Aftermath
  • pt. 2. The anatomy of the cloister. Clausura and community
  • The three pillars of monasticism: poverty, chastity, obedience
  • Prehistories
  • Novices
  • "The servants of the brides of Christ"
  • Of death and dying
  • The Institut
  • The Pensionnat
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Demographics of the cloister.