Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
- ISBN-10
- 0142004014
- ISBN-13
- 9780142004012
- Category
- Convents
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Mary Laven
Description
Documents the experiences of late-Renaissance Venetian nuns, many of whom were upper-class women immured against their will, exploring how convents of the period were often political hotbeds and the sites of illicit love affairs in their residents' efforts to find fulfillment. Reprint.
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