Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
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Analyzing convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles, this study examines the nuns' intellectual and imaginative achievements to determine how they preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles. The chronicles reveal many examples of the nuns' achievements, especially with regard to cultural creativity, and demonstrate that convent traditions ultimately determined the cultural...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521621917
ISBN13:9780521621915
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:454 Pages
Weight:2.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"
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