A rare first edition of the foundational biography of Anne de Xainctonge, whose Ursuline community—shaped deliberately on Jesuit educational ideals—pioneered active female pedagogy in the Catholic Reformation. Mourath’s 1681 life is both hagiographic tribute and institutional defense, here preserved in an excellent contemporary binding.
1681 Life of Anne de Xainctonge — Founder of the Ursulines of the Franche-Comté (First Edition, Zug)
A rare first edition of the foundational biography of Anne de Xainctonge, whose Ursuline community—shaped deliberately on Jesuit educational ideals—pioneered active female pedagogy in the Catholic Reformation. Mourath’s 1681 life is both hagiographic tribute and institutional defense, here preserved in an excellent contemporary binding.
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