Nuns Behaving Badly

Informationen zum Autor Craig A. Monson is professor of music at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent. Klappentext Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book! the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy! it shows! set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond. Zusammenfassung Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book! the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy! it shows! set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Craig A. Monson, Monson Craig A.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780226534725
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53472-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, RELIGION / Monasticism, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Italy, Christianity, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism