Nuns' chronicles and convent culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

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Nuns' chronicles and convent culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

K.J.P. Lowe

Cambridge University Press, 2003

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [398]-424) and index

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内容説明

This well-illustrated book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles.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.

目次

  • 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.

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