Convents
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Convents
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031689
- info:lc/authorities/sh85031689
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85031689#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Cloisters (Religious communities)
- Convents and nunneries
- Nunneries
Use For
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Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Convents and nunneries
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Raspini, G. Gli archivi delle corporazioni religiose soppresse della diocesi di Fiesole, 1983.
- found: Kapsner. Catholic subjects headings.
- found: New Cath. encyc. (Convents; no reference to nunneries)
- found: Old Cath. encyc. (Only reference to nunneries is in article on Know-Nothing Movement)
- found: Phone calls to Catholic University Library (Fr. Pater) and the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberties (confirms that Nunneries has negative connotations and has not been used by Catholics in the English speaking world for religious communities for women)
- found: Web. new world dict., 1982 (Nunnery: "a former name for convent")
LC Classification
- BX4200-BX4563
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1999-02-17: revised
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