Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns
by
Daniella Kostroun
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
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...