Nuns : a history of convent life, 1450-1700 /

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Author / Creator:Evangelisti, Silvia.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152642
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ISBN:9780191516863
0191516864
128114679X
9781281146793
9781429469869
1429469862
9786611146795
6611146792
0192804359
9780192804358
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Evangelisti, Silvia. Nuns. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780192804358 0192804359