The Transforming Power of the Nuns by Magray & Mary Peckham Assistant Professor of History & Assistant Professor of History & Wesleyan College & USA

Oxford University Press Inc
The Transforming Power of the Nuns by Magray & Mary Peckham Assistant Professor of History & Assistant Professor of History & Wesleyan College & USA
The Transforming Power of the Nuns by Magray & Mary Peckham Assistant Professor of History & Assistant Professor of History & Wesleyan College & USA
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  • Title: The Transforming Power of the Nuns by Magray & Mary Peckham Assistant Professor of History & Assistant Professor of History & Wesleyan College & USA
  • Author: Magray & Mary Peckham Assistant Professor of History & Assistant Professor of History & Wesleyan College & USA
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Binding: Hardback
  • History
  • No. of pages: 208
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 239 x 160 x 25

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Challenging widely-held assumptions of 19th-century social history in Ireland this book examines the influence of Irish nuns on the Irish Catholic cultural revolution. It claims they were not merely passive servants but educated women at the centre of the creation of a devout Catholic culture.