 | Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789... Mita Choudhury is Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. She is coeditor of the ninth edition of Heritage of Western Civilization . |
