Описание: Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. 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. That is, until now. In "Nuns Behaving Badly," Craig A. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. 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. In resurrecting these long-forgotten tales and trials, Monson also draws attention to the predicament of modern religious women, whose "misbehavior"--seeking ordination as priests or refusing to give up their endowments to pay for priestly wrongdoing in their own archdioceses--continues even today. The nuns of early modern Italy, Monson shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age--and beyond.
Автор: Reese Abbie Название: Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns ISBN: 0199947937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199947935 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4792 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For almost six years, Abbie Reese worked intimately with members of a community of cloistered monastic nuns in Rockford, Illinois. The Hidden Lives of Cloistered Nuns tells their stories, based on a series of oral history interviews of the Poor Clare Colettine Order.
Автор: Evangelisti Название: Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1450-1700 (Hb) ISBN: 0192804359 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192804358 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2464 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tells the stories of the women who have lived in religious communities since the dawn of the modern age - their achievements, failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society around them. This book also explores how they came to the cloister, how they responded to monastic discipline, and how they pursued their missionary activities.
Автор: Chowning, Margaret Название: Rebellious Nuns ISBN: 0195182219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195182217 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6641 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the walls of convents was meant by the church to be mysterious. Margaret Chowning has had good fortune to discover a treasure-trove of documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that wracked and ultimately destroyed the convent of La Purisma Concepcion in San Miguel el Grande, New Spain (Mexico). At the heart of both rebellions were attempts by some nuns to impose a regimen of strict observance of their vows on the others, and the resistance mounted by those who had a different view of the convent and their own role in it. Drawing on an abundance of sources, including numerous letters written by the bishop and local vicar as well as nuns of both factions, Chowning is able to give us not just the voices but the personalities of the nuns and other actors. In this way she makes it possible for us to empathise with all of them and to appreciate the complicated dynamics of having committed your life not only to God, but to your community.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Evangelisti, Silvia Название: Nuns ISBN: 0199532052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199532056 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3012 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The fascinating story of the women who have lived in religious communities, from the dawn of the modern age onwards.
Описание: Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book, the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy, it shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond.
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