Nuns [[electronic resource] ] : a history of convent life, 1450-1700 / / Silvia Evangelisti

• Autore: Evangelisti Silvia
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 271/.9
• Soggetto topico: Monastic and religious life - Europe - History; Monasticism and religious orders for women - Europe - History; Nuns - Europe - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-283) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 reac
• Titolo autorizzato: Nuns
• ISBN: 1-383-00269-X; 1-281-14679-X; 9786611146795; 0-19-151686-4; 1-4294-6986-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811983403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II