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

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Witchcraft, Arson, Going AWOL. Some nuns in the 16th and 17th century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. Monson resurrects forgotten tales of cloistered heroines who conjured up the devil to improve their musical and romantic skills, who slipped out in disguise for nights at the opera, and who burned down their convent so they could all go home. The nuns of early modern Italy thus set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond.
Near Fine
Soft cover
University of Chicago Press
2011
Chicago, IL