In Widow's Habit: Women between Convent and Family in Sixteenth-Century Milan
Recent scholarship has recognized that medieval and early modern nunneries functioned as refuges, both permanent and temporary, for many kinds of women who could not or would not live in family households. Widows were particularly numerous among the convents' transient populations. But a widow&...
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1994
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1994, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 787-807 |
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