Nuns

• An absorbing insight into the world of nuns and convent life - in the words of the women themselves
• Illuminates the wider history of convent life through the stories of individual nuns and their experiences, including major figures such as Teresa of Avila
• Focuses on the golden age of convent life, up to the end of the seventeenth century
• Follows the spread of convent life beyond Europe to the New World

Readership: Anyone studying or interested in the history of nuns and the role of women in religion

Silvia Evangelista, lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia

"Eminently readable." - James Kelly, Catholic Times

"Makes a significant contribution to our understanding of nuns as women in society." - Peta Dunstan, Church Times

Introduction
1: On Nuns and Nunneries
2: Cloistered Spaces
3: Voices from the Cloister
4: Theatre and Music
5: The Visual Arts
6: Expansions: Nuns across the Globe
7: Open Communities of Women