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Nuns : a history of convent life, 1450-1700 / Silvia Evangelisti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evangelisti, Silvia, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monasticism and religious orders for women--History.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women.
- Nuns.
- Convents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Silvia Evangelisti presents the 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-00269-X
- 1-281-14679-X
- 9786611146795
- 0-19-151686-4
- 1-4294-6986-2
- OCLC:
- 476243578
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