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Baernstein, P. Renee

 
9780415927178: A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041592717X ISBN 13: 9780415927178
Verlag: Routledge, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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 the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period. Showing the nuns as neither helpless victims nor valiant rebels, but reasonable beings maneuvering as best they could within limits set by class, gender and culture. Baernstein writes against the tendency to depict women as inactive pawns, and shows that even within the convent walls, nuns were empowered by ties with their (often earthly) families and actively involved in the politics of the period. Both a major contribution to scholarship on gender, family and religion in early modern Europe, and a colorful well-told tale of Renaissance intrigue, A Convent Tale is sure to attract a wide range of academic and general readers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

P. Renée Baernstein is Associate Professor of European History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and holds degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
041592717X
ISBN 13 
9780415927178
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
292
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