Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780521621915
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; History of religion; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Institutions & Organizations; Gender Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Italy; Europe - Italy; Social Science / Gender Studies; 16th century; Convents; Historiography; History; Monastic and religious life of; Monastic and religious life of women
First sentence: This book will analyse the manuscript chronicles or histories of their convents written in the vernacular by three sixteenth-century Italian nuns.