Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

This well-illustrated book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-12-04
Mått:184 x 254 x 35 mm
Vikt:1 066 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:454
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521621915

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Kate Lowe is Reader in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Recensioner i media

'… splendid in its objectivity, allowing its primary sources to speak for themselves … Professor Lowe is much to be commended on the thoroughness of her study. This is historical writing at its best: focused, colourful, vibrant.' Art Newspaper

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. History Writing and Authorship: 1. The creation of chronicles: contents and appearance; 2. The authors of the chronicles; Part II. Historical and Cultural Context: 3. The convents and physical space; 4. Nuns and convent communities; 5. Rules and traditions; Part III. Chronicles and the Culture of Convent Identity: 6. The chronicles and ceremonial life; 7. Cultural creativity and cultural production; 8. Convents and art; Conclusion.