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200 12$aA convent tale $ea century of sisterhood in Spanish Milan /$fP. Renee Baernstein
210  1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013.
215   $a1 online resource (293 p.)
300   $aFirst published 2002 by Routledge.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
327   $aCover; 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
330   $aPower 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
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