Nuns: a history of convent life, 1450-1700
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Main Author: Evangelisti, Silvia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-283) and index
Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue
The fascinating story of the women who have lived in religious communities, from the dawn of the modern age onwards - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society around them. - ;Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'? Or socially engaged women, active in the outside world to a degree impossible for their secular sisters?. Nuns tells the fascinating stories of the women who have lived in religious communities since the dawn of the modern age - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reac
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 301 p.)
ISBN:0191516864
0192804359
9780191516863
9780192804358