Sisters in Spirit: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio and Their Consorority in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence
Formal associations of pious women, or consororities, were rare in Italy before the second half of the sixteenth century. This article examines a previously unstudied consorority, called the Company of the Holy Miracle, founded in Florence in 1534 by a group of Benedictine nuns who revived an older,...
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2002
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2002, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 735-767 |
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