Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

by K.J.P. Lowe

Analyzing convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles, this study examines the nuns' intellectual and imaginative achievements to determine how they preserved individual and convent identities by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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521621917
• ISBN13: 9780521621915
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"