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Author Wyhe, Cordula van

Title Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe : an Interdisciplinary View
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
Series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: Femininity and Sanctity -- 1 Nuns and Relics: Spiritual Authority in Post-Tridentine Naples -- 2 Clara Hortulana of Embach or How to Suffer Martyrdom in the Cloister -- 3 How to Look Like a (Female) Saint: The Early Iconography of St Teresa of Avila -- PART II: Convent Theatre and Music Making -- 4 Music and Misgiving: Attitudes Towards Nuns' Music in Early Modern Spain -- 5 Traditions and Priorities in Claudia Rusca's Motet Book -- 6 The Wise and Foolish Virgins in Tuscan Convent Theatre -- PART III: Spiritual Directorship -- 7 Soul Mates: Spiritual Friendship and Life-Writing in Early Modern Spain (and Beyond) -- 8 Barbe Acarie and her Spiritual Daughters: Women's Spiritual Authority in Seventeenth-Century France -- 9 The Idea Vitæ Teresianæ (1687): The Teresian Mystic Life and its Visual Representation in the Low Countries -- PART IV: Community and Conflict -- 10 'Little Angels': Young Girls in Discalced Carmelite Convents (1562-1582) -- 11 Securing Souls or Telling Tales? The Politics of Cloistered Life in an English Convent -- 12 Writing the Thirty Years' War: Convent Histories by Maria Anna Junius and Elisabeth Herold -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351936675
1351936670