Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy by Craig A. Monson

Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

Craig A. Monson

264 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history religion adventurous slow-paced
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Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male sup...

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