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Nuns

A History of Convent Life 1450-1700

  • Paperback
  • 312 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

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For readers interested in women's historical roles

Reveals the true lives of nuns beyond stereotypes

You will gain insight into their spiritual journeys

This book unveils the rich history of convent life from 1450 to 1700.

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 reach out to the society around them. Drawing particularly on the nuns' own words, Silvia Evangelisti explores how they came to the cloister, how they responded to monastic discipline, and how they pursued their spiritual, intellectual, and missionary activities. The book looks not only at the individual stories of outstanding historical figures such as Teresa of Avila but also at the wider picture of convent life - what it symbolized to contemporaries, how it reflected and related to the world beyond the cloister, and what it means in the world today.

  • Title

    Nuns

  • Author

    Silva Evangelisti

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 2008

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    312

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199532056

  • ISBN-10

    0199532052

  • Eden Code

    1147406

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