The burdens of Sister Margaret [[electronic resource] ] : inside a seventeenth-century convent / / Craig Harline

• Autore: Harline Craig
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2000
• Edizione: Abridged ed., Rev. and abridged ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 271/.97304933
• Soggetto topico: Franciscan sisters - Belgium - Louvain; Monastic and religious life of women - History - 17th century
• Note generali: "Yale Nota bene."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- TO THE CURIOUS READER -- A NOTE ON USAGE -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- Prologue: Remembering -- 1. Beginning -- 2. Demons -- 3. Confessors -- 4. Despair -- 5. The Specialist -- 6. Pilgrim -- 7. Fulminations -- 8. No Balm in Bethlehem -- 9. The Burden of Bethlehem -- 10. Favorites -- 11. Almsgetting -- 12. Worldly Ways -- 13. The Visitors -- 14. Justification -- 15. Capitulation -- 16. Finis -- Epilogue -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints-of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her-led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions. Highly acclaimed when it was first published as a revealing look at female religious life in early modern Europe, the book is now available in an abridged paperbound version with a new preface by the author. Reviews of the clothbound edition: "A window to the past. . . . I loved, just loved, this book."-Carolyn See, Washington Post "The world Mr. Harline uncovers is a fascinating one. . . . The story of Sister Margaret gives an extra dimension of humanity to a turning point in the history of ideas."-Sonia Gernes, Wall Street Journal "Better-than-fiction social history. . . . This is a glimpse into diaries, letters, hearts, minds, hatreds, and hopes; it will enthrall."-Christian Century "Harline's graceful writing allows the women and men in this religious community to breathe, gossip, pray with tears. . . . The Burdens of Sister Margaret helps us see the familiar Reformation in a fresh way."-Kevin A. Miller, Christianity Today "Microhistory at its best."-Larissa Taylor, Renaissance Quarterly
• Titolo autorizzato: The burdens of Sister Margaret
• ISBN: 1-283-95021-9; 0-300-14370-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807705103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II