Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (1550-1650)

Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (1550-1650)
Author: Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 694
Release: 1995
Genre: Church and state
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Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (1550-1650)
Language: en
Pages: 694
Authors: Jutta Gisela Sperling
Categories: Church and state
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

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Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Jutta Gisela Sperling
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to
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Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: K. J. P. Lowe
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. It uses
Virgins of Venice
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Mary Laven
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Viking Adult

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Rich in intrigue and gossip, this book uncovers the long-hidden stories of the "virgins of Venice"--3,000 nuns, many of them immured against their will, in the
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Elissa B. Weaver
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity p