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Author : Guido Sorelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Nun of Florence written by Guido Sorelli and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emmeline Garnett
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586172972
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Florence Nightingale's Nuns written by Emmeline Garnett and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the English Catholic nuns trained by Florence Nightingale to tend to the wounded during the Crimean War, including their struggles to work in poor military hospitals and their dedication to their faith.
Author : Sharon T. Strocchia
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801898625
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence written by Sharon T. Strocchia and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Renaissance Florentine convents and their influence on the city’s social, economic, and political history. The 15th century was a time of dramatic and decisive change for nuns and nunneries in Florence. That century saw the city’s convents evolve from small, semiautonomous communities to large civic institutions. By 1552, roughly one in eight Florentine women lived in a religious community. Historian Sharon T. Strocchia analyzes this stunning growth of female monasticism, revealing the important roles these women and institutions played in the social, economic, and political history of Renaissance Florence. It became common practice during this time for unmarried women in elite society to enter convents. This unprecedented concentration of highly educated and well-connected women transformed convents into sites of great patronage and social and political influence. As their economic influence also grew, convents found new ways of supporting themselves; they established schools, produced manuscripts, and manufactured textiles. Using previously untapped archival materials, Strocchia shows how convents shaped one of the principal cities of Renaissance Europe. She demonstrates the importance of nuns and nunneries to the booming Florentine textile industry and shows the contributions that ordinary nuns made to Florentine life in their roles as scribes, stewards, artisans, teachers, and community leaders. In doing so, Strocchia argues that the ideals and institutions that defined Florence were influenced in great part by the city’s powerful female monastics. Winner, Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association “Strocchia examines the complex interrelationships between Florentine nuns and the laity, the secular government, and the religious hierarchy. The author skillfully analyzes extensive archival and printed sources.” —Choice
Author : Guido Sorelli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book My Opinion of Her! A Sister's Love: and The Nun of Florence. Ital. & Eng written by Guido Sorelli and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621915
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy written by K. J. P. Lowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. It uses a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine the intellectual and imaginative achievement of these 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.
Author : Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The bandit of Florence; and the fugitive nun written by Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig A. Monson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226534626
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Nuns Behaving Badly written by Craig A. Monson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Giustina Niccolini
Publisher : Acmrs Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780772721082
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Chronicle of Le Murate written by Giustina Niccolini and published by Acmrs Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicle of Le Murate, completed by Sister Giustina Niccolini in 1598, is one of a small number of surviving documents that presents a nun's own interpretation and synthesis of historical events. It recounts the roughly two hundred-year history of Florence's largest convent, which attracted boarders, nuns and patrons from Italy's elite families. The manuscript provides a rare view of life behind the enclosure walls and of nuns interaction with the world outside. The messy vitality of this account is an important pendant to the more formal and predictable convent chronicles that dominate the genre.
Author : Kate Charlotte MABERLY (Hon.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Love-Match: a novel written by Kate Charlotte MABERLY (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan B. Puett
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091320
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence written by Susan B. Puett and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.
Author : Valerie Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532091524
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book An Orphan’s Tale written by Valerie Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Maryanne grows up during the 1940s in Philadelphia, life is far from ordinary. When she is just five years old, her mother passes away. After Maryanne’s father proves to be incapable of caring for her and her siblings, she moves in and out of multiple foster homes, eventually landing in an orphanage for the duration of her childhood and adolescence. Throughout life’s ups and downs, Maryanne learns to keep herself grounded, to never give up, and know in her heart that life has a way of taking the worst and making the best. Sadly, Maryanne never realizes the true meaning of family—until she meets her brother’s friend, William. But will Maryanne somehow find the courage to continue onward—even after losing everything—and overcome her obstacles to begin a new chapter? In this poignant young adult novel, an orphan embarks on a coming-of-age journey where she must find a way to persevere through her challenges to realize happiness.
Download or read book The Stepmother; Or, Will She be a Nun? By Florence written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9782884520638
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Florence written by and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Michelangelo, Donatello, Giotto and Boticelli -- not to mention Macchiavelli and the Medicis -- is one great revelation of the Renaissance. Florence has more eternal art per square mile than anywhere else on earth. You'll want to take time out -- strolling the Boboli Gardens, shopping on the Ponte Vecchio, sipping a cappuccino in the Piazza della Signoria, digging into a steak alla fiorentina.
Author : Edgcumbe Staley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Guilds of Florence written by Edgcumbe Staley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Hiller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565834
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350?490 " written by Diana Hiller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely considered effect of gender on the profoundly contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images in surprisingly different physical and cultural refectory environments. In addition to offering detailed visual analyses, the author draws on a broad spectrum of published and unpublished primary materials, including monastic rules, devotional tracts and reading materials, the constitutions and ordinazioni for individual houses, inventories from male and female communities and the Convent Suppression documents of the Archivio di Stato in Florence. By examining the original viewers? attitudes to images, their educational status, acculturated pieties, affective responses, levels of community, degrees of reclusion, and even the types of food eaten in the refectories, Hiller argues that the perceptions of these viewers of the Last Supper frescoes were intrinsically gendered.
Author : Sarah Sheridan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504075080
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Sister Veronica Mysteries Books One to Three written by Sarah Sheridan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three novels in the series starring a London nun with a nose for crime—now in one volume! This compelling mystery collection includes: The Convent Meet Sister Veronica Angelica, a secret whodunit writer and lover of custard cream biscuits. When she discovers a dead man on the grounds of the Catholic Youth Hostel next door to her convent, Veronica can see he was brutally murdered. What she doesn’t know is that the victim had a secret he was about to confess . . . The Disciple When a two-month-old baby girl is left on the convent doorstep one night, wrapped up in dirty blankets and placed in an open cardboard box, Sister Veronica steps in to help solve the mystery. The one confounding clue is a tarot card left with the baby . . . “Such a good read . . . A cosy mystery but has, like Christie’s Miss Marple books, a very dark side.” —Love Books, Read Books The Tormented Sister Veronica has arrived at her cousin’s mansion just in time for Christmas, and she didn’t realise so many other people had been invited. It quickly becomes clear how dysfunctional her extended family is. But events take a darker turn when her cousin’s husband collapses and dies in the kitchen . . .
Author : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520215222
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Florence, the Golden Age, 1138-1737 written by Gene A. Brucker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is complemented throughout by a wealth of paintings and drawings, 200 of them in full color. Also included are a chronology of important historical events, a listing of noted Florentine families, and a genealogy of the famed Medici family.
