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Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism - Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns (Hardcover)
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Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism - Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns (Hardcover)
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Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of
Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power
struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown, and
the pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of
Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV
in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns'
adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious,
innocent, and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them
to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural
studies, feminism, and the Cambridge School of political thought,
Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart of the
Jansenist challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of
absolutism; they responded to royal persecution with a feminist
defense of women's spiritual and rational equality and of the
autonomy of the individual subject, thereby offering a bold
challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of
absolutism.
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