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
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index
