02701nam 2200625 a 450 991045162300332120200520144314.01-281-14679-X97866111467950-19-151686-41-4294-6986-2(CKB)1000000000473496(EBL)415600(OCoLC)476243578(SSID)ssj0001147692(PQKBManifestationID)12465179(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001147692(PQKBWorkID)11142133(PQKB)11180405(MiAaPQ)EBC415600(Au-PeEL)EBL415600(CaPaEBR)ebr10171025(CaONFJC)MIL114679(EXLCZ)99100000000047349620061120d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNuns[electronic resource] a history of convent life, 1450-1700 /Silvia EvangelistiOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-953205-2 0-19-280435-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-283) and index.Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue.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 reacMonastic and religious lifeEuropeHistoryMonasticism and religious orders for womenEuropeHistoryNunsEuropeHistoryElectronic books.Monastic and religious lifeHistory.Monasticism and religious orders for womenHistory.NunsHistory.271/.9Evangelisti Silvia154699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451623003321Nuns1686739UNINA