Nuns : a history of convent life, 1450-1700 /
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Author / Creator: | Evangelisti, Silvia. |
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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 |
ISBN: | 9780191516863 0191516864 128114679X 9781281146793 9781429469869 1429469862 9786611146795 6611146792 0192804359 9780192804358 |
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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 |
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