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Making fields of merit : Buddhist nuns challenge gendered orders in Thailand
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ISBN: 9162854909 Year: 2002 Publisher: Göteborg Kompendiet


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Guide to the Catholic sisterhoods in the United States
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ISBN: 0813220734 9780813220734 0813213126 9780813213125 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press

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De communauteiten van tertiarissen van Sint-Franciscus : monasticon
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Year: 2002 Volume: 56 Publisher: Brussel : Algemeen Rijksarchief,

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Architetture degli ordini mendicanti in Calabria nei secoli XIII-XV.
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ISBN: 8887669163 Year: 2002 Publisher: Pescara Biblioteca del cenide

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Weibliches Zisterziensertum im Mittelalter und seine Klöster in Niedersachsen
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ISBN: 3931836479 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berlin Lukas

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A convent tale: a century of sisterhood in Spanish Milan
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ISBN: 0415927188 1315023164 1136694536 9781136694608 1136694609 9781315023168 041592717X 9780415927178 041593043X 9780415930437 041592717X 9780415927178 9781136694530 9780415927185 9781136694677 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge

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Power often operates in strange and surprising ways. With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert their agency. In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period. Showing the nuns as neither helpless victims nor valiant rebels, but reasonable beings maneuvering as best they could within limits set by class, gender and culture. Baernstein writes against the tendency to depict women as inactive

Holy concord within sacred walls
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ISBN: 1280530758 0195350979 1429401761 9781429401760 9781280530753 9786610530755 6610530750 0195132955 9780195132953 0197728138 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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This volume examines musical culture both inside and outside 17th-century Sienese convents. The author argues that cloistered women in Siena enjoyed a significant degree of freedom to engage in musical pursuits.

Women and monasticism in medieval Europe: sisters and patrons of the Cistercian Reform
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ISBN: 1580440363 Year: 2002 Publisher: Kalamazoo, Mich. Medieval Institute

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