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Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of Catholic religious women remained uncloistered. They lived in private houses in the cities and towns of France, offering medical care, religious instruction and alms to the sick and the poor; by the end of the century, they were France's premier organization of nurses. This book places the Daughters of...

This study takes a global and comparative approach to the study of women's religious experience in the early modern period. Each section in this book pairs an essay that explores the religious experience of women in a European country - Spain, France, the Netherlands and England - with one that takes a look at such experiences in a New World colony of the respective European power.

This innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.