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The Enclosed Renaissance: Intellectual and Spiritual Learning in Early Modern Venetian Convents

Description:

Convent education was financially accessible to many girls whose families could not afford a private tutor and nuns were the largest group of educated, culturally-active women in pre-modern Europe. Convent education mirrored the general contours of humanist education by associating learning with morality, serving the purposes of the Venetian republic,...

Keyword:

nuns, feminism, Italy, women's education, convents, and early modern Venice

Subject:

History

Creator:

Charlotte Cover Moy

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

11/24/2019

Date Modified:

11/24/2019

Date Created:

2018-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation