TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Emily TI - Masterless mistresses: the New Orleans Ursulines and the development of a new world society, 1727-1834 SN - 9780807831229 AV - BX 4543.U6 C53.2007 PY - 2007///, CY - Williamsburg, Va., Chapel Hill PB - Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press KW - Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.) KW - Ursulines KW - Louisiana KW - New Orleans KW - History KW - Ursulinas KW - Luisiana KW - Nueva Orleans KW - Historia KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Church history KW - Nueva Orleans (La.) KW - Historia de la iglesia N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Prelude: Old world origins: female piety and social imperatives in Europe -- I: Transplantations: the French legacy -- 1. Making a match: the Ursuline mission to New Orleans -- 2. The order was well kept: creating and sustaining community -- 3. Inner spirit, outward signs: French feminine piety at work -- II: Transformations: old world to new -- 4. Differences of nation and mentality: testing the bonds of community -- 5. It is custom of the country: the Ursuline encounter with slavery -- 6. The wages of zeal: change and the convent economy -- III: Confrontations: a catholic colony meets a Protestant nation -- 7. The Republic encounters the nun -- Epilogue: A woman of masculine appearance and character: antebellum anti-Catholicism; Abierta a los investigadores bajo las restricciones de la biblioteca ER -