“…A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bound together in community : convents and their patrons -- Blurring the boundaries : convents as estate managers -- Litigious behavior : convents and lawsuits -- A carpenter resisted : late medieval monastic reform -- Habits of reform : religious women before Trent -- The cloister and the world…”