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tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Monson, Craig A.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- Z. EUR 8 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- religieuzen, religieuze gemeenschappen, dagelijks leven, priesters, muziek, kunsten, seksualiteit, Italië, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw
- Description
- .Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. In this book forgotten tales are restored to life. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation.
a history of convent life
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Evangelisti, Silvia
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- religieuzen, religieuze gemeenschappen, muziek, spiritualiteit, huwelijken, 15e eeuw, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw
- Description
- This examination of convent life paints a portrait of the women who led mostly hidden lives of work and prayer between the late 15th and early 18th centuries. The author tells how nuns of this period engaged in such creative pursuits as writing, music, the visual arts and theater. Some even wrote spirited defenses of their gender, confronting the prevailing view of women as less than men (although at least one of these—Teresa of Ávila—had her words on the subject censored from the published version of The Way of Perfection). Evangelisti also deals with a darker side of convent life: that of women being forced by their families to become nuns because of the few opportunities available to women of that time. She also points out that, for others, becoming a nun was a suitable alternative to marriage.
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