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ISBN: | 9780191516863 0191516864 128114679X 9781281146793 9781429469869 1429469862 9786611146795 6611146792 0192804359 9780192804358
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Evangelisti, Silvia. Nuns. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780192804358 0192804359
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