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Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200-1700 / edited by Mercedes Pérez Vidal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Series: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and WestPublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2022]Copyright date: c2022Description: viii, 162 pagine : illustrazioni ; 24 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9781641892988
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • 222 PER
Summary: This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas.
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Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca dell'Istituto Storico Domenicano Magazzino 222 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0031004464

This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas.

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