A Convent Tale
A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan
Power often operates in strange and surprising ways.
With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert their agency.
In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses th.
- Format
- 256 pages, Hardcover
- First published
- September 6, 2002
- Publishers
- Routledge
- Language
- English
This is a fine history of a particular convent/religious order (the Angelicas) in Milan from its origins in 1530 to around 1630 in detail, and then a quick epilogue to its suppression in 1810 and refounding in 1879. While there is lots of good, primary source information about the convent itself, in many ways the convent history is a springboard to larger issues of the day -- various class and gender issues, along with a general look at Milan, church politics, etc.
A fine example of how to turn a dissertation into a scholarly book that a wider audience will want to read.
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