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1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
The fascinating story of the women who have lived in religious communities, from the dawn of the modern age onwards - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society around them. - ;Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'? Or socially engaged women, active in the outside world to a degree impossible for their secular sisters?. Nuns tells the fascinating stories of the women who have lived in religious communities since the dawn of the modern age - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reac. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nuns -- Europe -- History.
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Nuns. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Europe -- History.
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Monasticism and religious orders for women. |
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Monastic and religious life -- Europe -- History.
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Monastic and religious life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evangelisti, Silvia. Nuns. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780192804358 0192804359 (DLC) 2006038888 (OCoLC)76836064 |
| ISBN |
9780191516863 (electronic book) |
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0191516864 (electronic book) |
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128114679X |
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9781281146793 |
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0192804359 (alkaline paper) |
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9780192804358 (alkaline paper) |
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