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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Main Author: Baernstein, P. Renee (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 1994
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1994, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 787-807
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