1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008258540403321

Titolo

Volontariato ed enti locali : percorsi di collaborazione per attuare la legge quadro e costruire una societa responsabile e solidale : atti del Convegno promosso dalla Lega nazionale delle autonomie locali , Verona, 2-3 ottobre 1992

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Edizioni delle autonomie, 1994

ISBN

88-7976-013-0

Descrizione fisica

172 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Atti e documenti

Disciplina

361.370945

Locazione

DDA

Collocazione

VI H 325

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453546903321

Autore

Baernstein P. Renee

Titolo

A convent tale : a century of sisterhood in Spanish Milan / / P. Renee Baernstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-415-92718-8

1-315-02316-4

1-136-69453-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Disciplina

271/.97

Soggetti

Convents - Italy

Electronic books.

Milan (Italy) Church history 16th century

Milan (Italy) Church history 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; A Note on Conventions; Chronology; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE THE COMMUNITY OF SAN PAOLO CONVERSO, 1535-1550; CHAPTER TWO THE DIVINE MOTHER AND THE INQUISITION, 1550-1552; CHAPTER THREE BORROMEO'S REVOLUTION, 1565-1584; CHAPTER FOUR THE RISE OF THE SFONDRATI DYNASTY, 1565-1590; CHAPTER FIVE A SECOND JERUSALEM, 1590-1635; EPILOGUE; Sources and Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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