Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
K. J. P. (Goldsmiths, University of London) Lowe
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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This well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles, using a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine their intellectual and imaginative achievement, and to investigate how they fashioned and preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521621915
- ISBN-10
- 0521621917
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-12-04
- Pages
- 454
- Dimensions
- 254x184x35
- Weight
- 1066