Margaret Susan Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Susan Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sacraments as Weapons
This essay analyzes the ways in which sacraments were used as weapons of control in nineteenth-century women's religious life. While most instances involve clerics as the wielders of such weapons, some instances of sisters themselves, and even laymen, doing so are also included. Focus is primarily on sisters being denied Communion, restrictions on the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, and regimentation of confession. Particular but not exclus…
Paula M. Kane. Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America
Journal Article Paula M. Kane. Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America. Get access Paula M. Kane. Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 313. $39.95. Margaret Susan Thompson Margaret Susan Thompson Syracuse University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 1…
Adaptation and professionalisation
Sisters, especially teaching sisters, were the principal agents of Americanisation for the millions of Catholics who settled in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But what did adaptation really mean? This essay argues that sisters – many themselves immigrants, of course – arrived at a range of responses to the challenge of determining what it meant to be American and Catholic, religious and educator. Based upon pri…
The Modern American Presidency
The ministry of women and the transformation of Catholicism in nineteenth-century America
Women with Vision
Journal Article Women with Vision: The Presentation Sisters of South Dakota, 1880–1985 Get access Women with Vision: The Presentation Sisters of South Dakota, 1880–1985. By Peterson Susan Carol Vaughn-Roberson Courtney Ann. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. x + 332 pp. Glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95) Margaret Susan Thompson Margaret Susan Thompson Syracuse University Search for other works by this author on: O…
The "Spider Web"
Hospital life in enlightenment Scotland
"The "Spider Web
Journal Article The “Spicier Web”: Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant. By Margaret Susan Thompson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 288 pp. $29.95.) Get access Ari Hoogenboom Ari Hoogenboom Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903037 Published: 01 …
Research on 19th Century Legislatures
Conventional research in the history of legislatures has been abundant but unsystematic and incomplete. An empirical, social science tradition has developed recently, however, most strikingly in the study of the nineteenthand early twentiethcentury U.S. Congress and state legislatures. Systematic roll-call, biographical, and constituency analysis of those bodies suggests a political universe different from that of our own time, one in which stron…
Corruption–or Confusion? Lobbying and Congressional Government in the Early Gilded Age
Woodrow Wilson declared the early Gilded Age to be a time of Congressional Government, when the legislature "reigned supreme" and was the federal polity's "motivating force." Yet that same Congress, and era, have been immortalized pejoratively as bastions of corruption; of politicos, spoils–and, most especially, of omnipotently evil lobbyists. This essay argues that both lobbying and the notoriety it aroused in the Grant years were essentially by…
Ben Butler versus the Brahmins
N INETEENTH-CENTURY humorist Artemus Ward once quipped that the Union Army's hasty retreat from Bull Run was brought on by a rumor of three openings in the New York Custom House. In 1880, a Texan attending his party's national convention allegedly declared, What are we here for if not for the offices? Both stories are apocryphal but, nevertheless, credible as indicators of the centrality of patronage to early Gilded Age American politics.l The di…
A History of Parliamentary Behavior
"The "Spider Web
Journal Article The “Spicier Web”: Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant. By Margaret Susan Thompson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 288 pp. $29.95.) Get access Ari Hoogenboom Ari Hoogenboom Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903037 Published: 01 …
Research on 19th Century Legislatures
Conventional research in the history of legislatures has been abundant but unsystematic and incomplete. An empirical, social science tradition has developed recently, however, most strikingly in the study of the nineteenthand early twentiethcentury U.S. Congress and state legislatures. Systematic roll-call, biographical, and constituency analysis of those bodies suggests a political universe different from that of our own time, one in which stron…
Hospital life in enlightenment Scotland
Corruption–or Confusion? Lobbying and Congressional Government in the Early Gilded Age
Woodrow Wilson declared the early Gilded Age to be a time of Congressional Government, when the legislature "reigned supreme" and was the federal polity's "motivating force." Yet that same Congress, and era, have been immortalized pejoratively as bastions of corruption; of politicos, spoils–and, most especially, of omnipotently evil lobbyists. This essay argues that both lobbying and the notoriety it aroused in the Grant years were essentially by…
A History of Parliamentary Behavior
Ben Butler versus the Brahmins
N INETEENTH-CENTURY humorist Artemus Ward once quipped that the Union Army's hasty retreat from Bull Run was brought on by a rumor of three openings in the New York Custom House. In 1880, a Texan attending his party's national convention allegedly declared, What are we here for if not for the offices? Both stories are apocryphal but, nevertheless, credible as indicators of the centrality of patronage to early Gilded Age American politics.l The di…
Corruption–or Confusion? Lobbying and Congressional Government in the Early Gilded Age
Woodrow Wilson declared the early Gilded Age to be a time of Congressional Government, when the legislature "reigned supreme" and was the federal polity's "motivating force." Yet that same Congress, and era, have been immortalized pejoratively as bastions of corruption; of politicos, spoils–and, most especially, of omnipotently evil lobbyists. This essay argues that both lobbying and the notoriety it aroused in the Grant years were essentially by…
Research on 19th Century Legislatures
Conventional research in the history of legislatures has been abundant but unsystematic and incomplete. An empirical, social science tradition has developed recently, however, most strikingly in the study of the nineteenthand early twentiethcentury U.S. Congress and state legislatures. Systematic roll-call, biographical, and constituency analysis of those bodies suggests a political universe different from that of our own time, one in which stron…
"The "Spider Web
Journal Article The “Spicier Web”: Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant. By Margaret Susan Thompson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 288 pp. $29.95.) Get access Ari Hoogenboom Ari Hoogenboom Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903037 Published: 01 …
The "Spider Web"
Hospital life in enlightenment Scotland
Women with Vision
Journal Article Women with Vision: The Presentation Sisters of South Dakota, 1880–1985 Get access Women with Vision: The Presentation Sisters of South Dakota, 1880–1985. By Peterson Susan Carol Vaughn-Roberson Courtney Ann. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. x + 332 pp. Glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95) Margaret Susan Thompson Margaret Susan Thompson Syracuse University Search for other works by this author on: O…
The ministry of women and the transformation of Catholicism in nineteenth-century America
The Modern American Presidency
Adaptation and professionalisation
Sisters, especially teaching sisters, were the principal agents of Americanisation for the millions of Catholics who settled in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But what did adaptation really mean? This essay argues that sisters – many themselves immigrants, of course – arrived at a range of responses to the challenge of determining what it meant to be American and Catholic, religious and educator. Based upon pri…
Paula M. Kane. Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America
Journal Article Paula M. Kane. Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America. Get access Paula M. Kane. Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 313. $39.95. Margaret Susan Thompson Margaret Susan Thompson Syracuse University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 1…
Sacraments as Weapons
This essay analyzes the ways in which sacraments were used as weapons of control in nineteenth-century women's religious life. While most instances involve clerics as the wielders of such weapons, some instances of sisters themselves, and even laymen, doing so are also included. Focus is primarily on sisters being denied Communion, restrictions on the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, and regimentation of confession. Particular but not exclus…
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