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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Main Author: Strocchia, Sharon T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2002
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2002, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 735-767
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