Author : K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621915
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Book Synopsis Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy by : K. J. P. Lowe
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well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles.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.