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| ISBN: | 9781136694608
1136694609
9781315023168
1315023164
041592717X
9780415927178
9781136694530
1136694536
0415927188
9780415927185
041593043X
9780415930437
041592717X
9780415927178
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014.
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| Summary: | Annotation Power often operates in strange and surprising ways. With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert their agency. In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period. Showing the nuns as neither helpless victims nor valiant rebels, but reasonable beings maneuvering as best they could within limits set by class, gender and culture. Baernstein writes against the tendency to depict women as inactive pawns, and shows that even within the convent walls, nuns were empowered by ties with their (often earthly) families and actively involved in the politics of the period. Both a major contribution to scholarship on gender, family and religion in early modern Europe, and a colorful well-told tale of Renaissance intrigue, A Convent Tale is sure to attract a wide range of academic and general readers.
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| Other form: | Print version: Baernstein, P. Renee. Convent tale. New York : Routledge, 2002
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| Standard no.: | 9780415927178
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