The Princess Nun

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book The Princess Nun written by Gina Cogan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of a premodern Japanese nun, The Princess Nun is the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshōji. The study incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion.

The Princess Nun

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175410
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The Princess Nun written by Gina Cogan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess Nun tells the story of Bunchi (1619–1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshōji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern Japanese nun, this book incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi’s ascetic practice and religious reforms to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. Gina Cogan’s approach moves beyond the dichotomy of oppression and liberation that dogs the study of non-Western and premodern women to show how Bunchi’s aristocratic status enabled her to carry out reforms despite her gender, while simultaneously acknowledging how that same status contributed to their conservative nature. Cogan’s analysis of how Bunchi used her prestigious position to further her goals places the book in conversation with other works on powerful religious women, like Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Avila. Through its illumination of the relationship between the court and the shogunate and its analysis of the practice of courtly Buddhism from a female perspective, this study brings historical depth and fresh theoretical insight into the role of gender and class in early Edo Buddhism.

The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351925
Total Pages : 557 pages
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Download or read book The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio written by Hubert Wolf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.

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ISBN 13 : 9781070476162
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book The Princess Nun written by J. P. Reedman and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent into a convent at the age of six, Mary daughter of Edward I, decides to make the best of a bad situation. It soon becomes obvious she is never going to make a good nun! Never forgetting that she is a princess by birth, the feisty gambler travels around England, living the high life at daddy's expense, and acquiring numerous other bad "habits" ... including being linked romantically to the Earl of Surrey, John de Warenne.When her Father the King becomes ill and dies, the crown goes to Mary's brother Edward II and the travelling nun attends his disastrous Coronation, rubbing shoulders with the hated Piers Gaveston. For the first time, she is uneasy about the future. Leaving her wayward life behind, she retires to spending a quiet life in Amesbury Priory where she decides to have a chronicle written on the life of her family - a book that exists today.

Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princess of Forino, Ex-Benedictine Nun

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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Alice

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312288867
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Book Synopsis Alice by : Hugo Vickers

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The life of madame Louise, a Carmelite nun, and daughter of Louis xv., king of France, transl

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Total Pages : 456 pages
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Kuan Yin

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611807999
Total Pages : 33 pages
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The Life of Madame Louise, a Carmelite Nun, and Daughter of Louis XV., King of France. ... Translated

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Total Pages : 278 pages
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169802
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio written by Hubert Wolf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she feared for her life. A subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered the shocking secrets of a convent ruled by a beautiful young mistress, who coerced her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies, and who entered into an illicit relationship with a young theologian. Drawing upon written testimony and original documents discovered in a secret Vatican archive, The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio is the never-before-told true story of how one woman was able to practice deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.

Saint Theresa

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Murder in the Cloister

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Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448304954
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Nuns Across the Orange

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Publisher : UJ Press
ISBN 13 : 1928424635
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

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Total Pages : 854 pages
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Marrying A Wannabe Nun

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312487887
Total Pages : 186 pages
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The Ruin of a Princess

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Total Pages : 384 pages
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The Book of the Foundations of S. Teresa of Jesus ... Written by Herself. Translated from the Spanish by D. Lewis

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Total Pages : 424 pages
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