Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
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USDAnalyzing convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles, this study examines the nuns' intellectual and imaginative achievements to determine how they preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles. The chronicles reveal many examples of the nuns' achievements, especially with regard to cultural creativity, and demonstrate that convent traditions ultimately determined the cultural priorities that dictated convent ceremonial life.
- Makes an original approach to the intellectual and imaginative world of sixteenth-century Italian nuns
- Employs a wide range of unpublished material from Venice, Florence and Rome
- Illustrated with many images from the literary and artistic heritage of sixteenth-century Italy
Reviews & endorsements
"The book adds much to the fields of religious, women's and early modern social and cultural history. More specifically, readers of this work will emerge with a deeper appreciation of the richness and complexity of convent life in this period." American Historical Review, Monica Chojnacka
Product details
January 2004Hardback
9780521621915
454 pages
254 × 184 × 35 mm
1.066kg
42 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. History Writing and Authorship:
- 1. The creation of chronicles: contents and appearance
- 2. The authors of the chronicles
- Part II. Historical and Cultural Context:
- 3. The convents and physical space
- 4. Nuns and convent communities
- 5. Rules and traditions
- Part III. Chronicles and the Culture of Convent Identity:
- 6. The chronicles and ceremonial life
- 7. Cultural creativity and cultural production
- 8. Convents and art
- Conclusion.
