| Description |
vi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-366) and index. |
| Contents |
Female asceticism and monasticism in Italy from the fourth to the eighth centuries / Franca Ela Consolino ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Mystical marriage / E. Ann Matter ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Society and women's religiosity, 750-1450 / Giulia Barone ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Women, faith, and image in the late Middle Ages / Dominique Rigaux ; translated by Keith Botsford -- From prophecy to discipline, 1450-1650 / Gabriella Zarri ; translated by |
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Keith Botsford -- Spiritual letters / Adriano Prosperi ; translated by Keith Botsford -- The convent muses: the secular writing of Italian nuns, 1450-1650 / Elissa B. Weaver -- Little women, great heroines: simulated and genuine female holiness in early modern Italy / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- Models of female sanctity in Renaissance and counter-Reformation Italy / Sara F. Matthews Grieco -- From the late Baroque mystical explosion to the social apostolate, 1650-1850 / |
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Marina Caffiero ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Mystical writing / Marilena Modica Vasta ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Female dynastic sanctity, 1650-1850 / Sara Cabibbo ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Sacred imagery and the religious lives of women, 1650-1850 / Karen-edis Barzman -- "Christianity has liberated her and placed her alongside man in the family": from 1850 to 1988 (Mulieris Dignitatem) / Lucretta Scaraffia ; translated by Keith Botsford -- A voyage |
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to the Madonna / Emma Fattorini ; translated by Keith Botsford -- Sisters and saints on the screen / Giovanna Grignaffini ; translated by Keith Botsford. |
| Subject |
Women in Christianity -- Italy -- History.
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Women -- Italy -- Religious life.
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| Added Author |
Scaraffia, Lucetta, 1948-
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Zarri, Gabriella, 1942-
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| ISBN |
0674954785 alkaline paper |
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