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Author: Jacques Casanova
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1425022650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping journey of Jacque's life which unfolds the many secrets of his life. An engrossing work that will keep reader riveted with its in-depth portray of characters and vibrant plot. An entertaining read!...
Author: Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 3734014514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: To Paris and Prison: Convent Affairs by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Author: Jacques Casanova
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1425020046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping journey of Jacque's life which unfolds the many secrets of his life. An entertaining read!
Author: Jacques Casano de Seingalt
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1425005578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-12-04
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780521621915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. It uses a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine the intellectual and imaginative achievement of these nuns, and to investigate how they fashioned and preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles. The chronicles themselves reveal many examples of nuns' agency, especially with regard to cultural creativity, and show that convent traditions determined cultural priorities and specialisms, and dictated the contours of convent ceremonial life.
Author: P. Renee Baernstein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1136694536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Debra Meyers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1317721608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.
Author: Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1647023483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the Convent: A Frances Yates Mystery By: Marjorie G. Jones In the sequel to In the Cards, Hermetic scholar Dame Francis Yates is invited by a former student Juan Carlos Ortiz to Mexico City with the intent to speak in the convent of seventeenth century feminist nun, Sor Juana de la Cruz. When a murder occurs in the convent, her fascination with Mexico’s food, spiritual significance, and margaritas quickly shifts to the boldly feminist nuns. She wonders whether the forces of the Inquisition could still be alive in modern-day Mexico.
Author: Rebecca Theresa Reed
Publisher: Boston : Russell, Odiorne, & Company
Published: 1835
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jacques Casanova De Seingalt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-11-23
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781540580115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Show Excerpt a relative of M. Dandolo. That countess, who had been very handsome and was very witty, having made up her mind to renounce the political intrigues which had been the study of her whole life, had sought a retreat in the Convent of St. Justine, in the hope of finding in that refuge the calm which she wanted, and which her disgust of society had rendered necessary to her. As she had enjoyed a very great reputation, she was still visited at the convent by all the foreign ambassadors and by the first noblemen of Venice; inside of the walls of her convent the countess was acquainted with everything that happened in the city. She always received me very kindly, and, treating me as a young man, she took pleasure in giving me, every time I called on her, very agreeable lessons in morals. Being quite certain to find out from her, with a little manoeuvering, something concerning M---- M----, I decided on paying her a visit the day after I had seen the beautiful nun. The countess gave me her usual welcome, and,
