Nuns Without Cloister: Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Paperback

by Marguerite Vacher (Author), Patricia Byrne (Translator), The United States Federation of the Sist (Translator)

Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent.

Author Biography

Marguerite (Sister Thérèse) Vacher, CSJ has been involved in research, teaching, and writing on the origins of the Sisters of St. Joseph since 1965 and holds the Doctorat d'Histoire moderne from the Université Lumière Lyon 2. Her publications include the critical edition of Soeurs de Saint-Joseph: Textes primitives (1981) and Des régulières dans le siècle: Les soeursde Saint-Joseph du P. Médaille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1991). She resides in Clermont-Ferrand.