Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities

Dr Rose-Marie Peake is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University. She specializes in the religious and gender history of early modern France.

• Acknowledgements, Introduction, I. At the cradle: gender and power in seventeenth-century Parisian society, II. Portrait of Louise de Marillac: ensuring resources for moral management, III. Portrait of the Daughter of Charity: safeguarding the execution of moral management, IV. Portrait of the underprivileged: managing the ignorant substitute of Christ, Sources, Note on vocabulary, Index

"[...] Peake’s work offers fresh perspective on the history of the Daughters of Charity and, more broadly, female spirituality in early modern France." - Sarah Loose, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 2 "[...] this is a thoughtful essay on the 'culture' of the Daughters of Charity and is a useful companion to the works of Barbara Diefendorf, Elizabeth Rapley, and other authors on seventeenth century French female spirituality." - Elizabeth Tingle, Church History, Vol. 89, Iss. 4