Nuns behaving badly : tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy / Craig A. Mons...
Nuns behaving badly : tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy / Craig A. Mons...
Nuns behaving badly : tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy / Craig A. Monson.
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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N271.90045/3
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Dangerous enchantments: what the inquisitor found, San Lorenzo (Bologna, 1584) -- Spinsters, silkworms, and a flight in Flagrante, San Niccolo di Strozzi (Reggio Calabria, 1673) -- Perilous patronage: generosity and jealousy, Santa Maria Nuova (Bologna, 1646-80) -- Slipping through the cracks: a con...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2010.
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Summary
Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgre...
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Nuns behaving badly : tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy / Craig A. Monson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-230) and index.
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N271.90045/3
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74VvdXz6jVOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvdXz6jVOM
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ISBN
0226534618 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226534619 (cloth : alk. paper)
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271.90045
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991005917339702626
