In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from these accounts, Rapley is able to provide a far more complex picture of women who, as a whole, were much less otherworldly than the older convent literature would have us believe, much less thwarted and unhappy than their detractors have long maintained, and much less irrelevant than some historians have assumed..
download A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion) pdf free
A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion) ebook pdf epub mobi
A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion) pdf download
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.