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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well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. The book uses a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine the intellectual and imaginative achievement of the nuns, and to investigate how they fashioned and preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles. The chronicles themselves reveal many examples of nuns' agency, especially with regard to cultural creativity, and show that convent traditions determined cultural priorities and specialisms, and dictated the contours of convent ceremonial life.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
• Author: Lowe, K. J. P. (Goldsmiths, University of London)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 454
• EAN: 9780521621915
• ISBN: 0521621917
• ID: 02037808
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1066 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 184 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2003

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