These works by Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni offer an intimate
portrait of the women who inhabited the Venetian convent of Corpus
Domini, where they shared a religious life bounded physically by
the convent wall and organized temporally by the rhythms of work
and worship. At the same time, they show how this cloistered
community vibrated with news of the great ecclesiastical events of
the day, such as the Great Western Schism and the Council of
Constance.
While the chronicle recounts the history of the nuns' collective
life, the necrology provides highly individualized biographies of
nearly fifty women who died in the convent between 1395 and 1436.
We follow the fascinating stories that led these women, from
adolescent girls to elderly widows, to join the convent; and we
learn of their cultural backgrounds and intellectual
accomplishments, their ascetic practices and mystical visions,
their charity and devotion to each other and their fortitude in the
face of illness and death.
The personal and social meaning of religious devotion comes alive
in these texts, the first of their kind to be translated into
English.
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