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Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence (Paperback)
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The 15th century was a time of dramatic and decisive change for
nuns and nunneries in Florence. In the course of that century, the
city's convents evolved from small, semiautonomous communities to
large civic institutions. By 1552, roughly one in eight Florentine
women lived in a religious community. Historian Sharon T. Strocchia
analyzes this stunning growth of female monasticism, revealing the
important roles these women and institutions played in the social,
economic, and political history of Renaissance Florence. It became
common practice during this time for unmarried women in elite
society to enter convents. This unprecedented concentration of
highly educated and well-connected women transformed convents into
sites of great patronage and social and political influence. As
their economic influence also grew, convents found new ways of
supporting themselves; they established schools, produced
manuscripts, and manufactured textiles. Strocchia has mined
previously untapped archival materials to uncover how convents
shaped one of the principal cities of Renaissance Europe. She
demonstrates the importance of nuns and nunneries to the booming
Florentine textile industry and shows the contributions that
ordinary nuns made to Florentine life in their roles as scribes,
stewards, artisans, teachers, and community leaders. In doing so,
Strocchia argues that the ideals and institutions that defined
Florence were influenced in great part by the city's powerful
female monastics. Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence shows
for the first time how religious women effected broad historical
change and helped write the grand narrative of medieval and
Renaissance Europe. The book is a valuable text for students and
scholars in early modern European history, religion, women's
studies, and economic history.
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