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The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / by Werth, Tiffany Jo

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? …”
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The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / by Werth, Tiffany Jo

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? …”
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A social history of the cloister daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime / by Rapley, Elizabeth

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A social history of the cloister daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime / by Rapley, Elizabeth

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Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200–1700 /

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Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200–1700 /

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Tormented minds [three plays] / by Roberts, Christine, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Ceremonial kisses -- Shading the crime -- The maternal cloister.…”
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Tormented minds [three plays] / by Roberts, Christine, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Ceremonial kisses -- Shading the crime -- The maternal cloister.…”
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Nuns a history of convent life, 1450-1700 / by Evangelisti, Silvia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue.…”
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Nuns a history of convent life, 1450-1700 / by Evangelisti, Silvia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On nuns and nunneries -- Cloistered spaces-- Voices from the cloister -- Theatre and music-- The visual arts -- Expansion : nuns across the globe -- Open communities for women-- Epilogue.…”
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Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe / by Bailey, Michael David, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- The weight of tradition -- Superstition in court and cloister -- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- Dilemmas of discernment -- Witchcraft and its discontents -- Toward disenchantment?.…”
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Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe / by Bailey, Michael David, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- The weight of tradition -- Superstition in court and cloister -- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- Dilemmas of discernment -- Witchcraft and its discontents -- Toward disenchantment?.…”
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Poverty's proprietors ownership and mortal sin at the origins of the Observant Movement / by Mixson, James D.

Table of Contents: “…Cultures of property between cloister and world -- Calls from without -- Revolt from within -- Property and community between principle and practice -- Property and community between penance and perfection.…”
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Poverty's proprietors ownership and mortal sin at the origins of the Observant Movement / by Mixson, James D.

Table of Contents: “…Cultures of property between cloister and world -- Calls from without -- Revolt from within -- Property and community between principle and practice -- Property and community between penance and perfection.…”
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Women of God and arms female spirituality and political conflict, 1380-1600 / by Warren, Nancy Bradley

Table of Contents: “…Monastic politics -- Strategic saints and diplomatic devotions -- The sword and the cloister -- Religion and female rule -- The mystic, the monarch, and the persistence of "the medieval" -- Dissolution, diaspora, and defining Englishness -- Conclusion: The power of the past.…”
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Women of God and arms female spirituality and political conflict, 1380-1600 / by Warren, Nancy Bradley

Table of Contents: “…Monastic politics -- Strategic saints and diplomatic devotions -- The sword and the cloister -- Religion and female rule -- The mystic, the monarch, and the persistence of "the medieval" -- Dissolution, diaspora, and defining Englishness -- Conclusion: The power of the past.…”
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Autobiographical writing by early modern Hispanic women / by Howe, Elizabeth Teresa, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Telling li(v)es: women and autobiography -- Court and convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena -- Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús -- In the footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite nuns and the reform(er) -- Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso -- Defending her life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.…”
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Autobiographical writing by early modern Hispanic women / by Howe, Elizabeth Teresa, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Telling li(v)es: women and autobiography -- Court and convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena -- Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús -- In the footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite nuns and the reform(er) -- Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso -- Defending her life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.…”
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Habits of change an oral history of American nuns / by Rogers, Carole Garibaldi

Table of Contents: “…In the schools ; Missionary workers ; In hospitals and clinics ; Serving the underserved ; Pastoral work ; Spiritual companions ; In the cloister ; On the cutting edge -- Changing attitudes. …”
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Habits of change an oral history of American nuns / by Rogers, Carole Garibaldi

Table of Contents: “…In the schools ; Missionary workers ; In hospitals and clinics ; Serving the underserved ; Pastoral work ; Spiritual companions ; In the cloister ; On the cutting edge -- Changing attitudes. …”
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