Cartea Nun Ii
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The Nun
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Author : Simonetta Agnello Hornby
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2011-12-27
The Nun written by Simonetta Agnello Hornby and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-27 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Italian PEN Prize: A tale of illicit love and a girl forced into a convent in the early nineteenth century. 1839, Messina, Italy: Agata is the daughter of an aristocrat, albeit an impoverished one, and she has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre. Their families, however, view their romance as unacceptable and tawdry—and when Agata’s father dies, her mother decides to ferry her daughter far away, to Naples, where she hopes to garner a stipend from the king. The only boat leaving Messina that day is captained by young Englishman James Garson. Following a tempestuous passage to Naples, during which Agata confesses her troubles to James, Agata and her mother find themselves rebuffed by the king, and Agata is forced to join a convent. The Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Stilita is rife with rancor and jealousy, illicit passions and ancient feuds. But Agata remains aloof, devoting herself to the cultivation of medicinal herbs, calmed by the steady rhythms of monastic life. She reads all the books James sends her and follows the news of the various factions struggling to bring unity to Italy. She has accepted her life as a nun, but she is divided between her yearnings for purity and religiosity and her desire to be part of the world. And she is increasingly torn when she realizes that her feelings for James, though he is only a distant presence in her life, have eclipsed those for Lepre . . . “Hornby enriches her story with sensuous details of food, fashion, furnishings, and the rules of an extravagant society, savoring local color and personality quirks.” —Publishers Weekly “An historical novel, a coming-of-age novel, a perfect portrait of family dynamics, The Nun also gives us, in Agata, an unforgettable heroine.” —Gazzetta di Mantova
The Nuns Of Sant Ambrogio
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Author : Hubert Wolf
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-02-26
The Nuns Of Sant Ambrogio written by Hubert Wolf and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with Religion categories.
Discovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent. In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered the extraordinary secrets of Sant'Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria Luissa. What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical proportions, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail by one of the world's leading papal historians. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing upon written testimony and original documents, Hubert Wolf tells an incredible story of deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.
Memoirs Of A Nun
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Author : Denis Diderot
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 2015-03-18
Memoirs Of A Nun written by Denis Diderot and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-18 with Fiction categories.
Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brilliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.
The Nuns Of Sant Ambrogio
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Author : Hubert Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-01-13
The Nuns Of Sant Ambrogio written by Hubert Wolf and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-13 with History categories.
A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.
Sisters In Arms
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Author : Jo Ann McNamara
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996
Sisters In Arms written by Jo Ann McNamara and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
History has, until recently, minimized the role of nuns over the centuries. In this volume, their rich lives, their work, and their importance to the Church are finally acknowledged. Jo Ann Kay McNamara introduces us to women scholars, mystics, artists, political activists, healers, and teachers - individuals whose religious vocation enabled them to pursue goals beyond traditional gender roles.
Two Little Nuns
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Author : Bill O'Malley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Two Little Nuns written by Bill O'Malley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with American wit and humor, Pictorial categories.
Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk
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Author : Maria Monk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk written by Maria Monk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Anti-Catholicism categories.
The Nun
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Author : Denis Diderot
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-11
The Nun written by Denis Diderot and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-11 with Fiction categories.
The seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders.
Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk As Exhibited In A Narrative Of Her Residence Of Five Years As A Novice And Two Years As A Black Nun In The Hotel Dieu Nunnery At Montreal
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Author : Maria MONK
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
Awful Disclosures Of Maria Monk As Exhibited In A Narrative Of Her Residence Of Five Years As A Novice And Two Years As A Black Nun In The Hotel Dieu Nunnery At Montreal written by Maria MONK and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with categories.
Quiet As A Nun
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Author : Antonia Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-10-09
Quiet As A Nun written by Antonia Fraser and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Fiction categories.
One of Lady Antonia Fraser's gripping Jemima Shore mysteries, set in a secluded nunnery. 'I lit the candle and began rather gingerly to climb up the ladder. Then I heard a distinct sound above my head. A scrape on the floor, an irregular jarring on the floor above my head, like something rocking . . .' A nun is dead - her emaciated corpse has been discovered locked in the tower of Blessed Eleanor's Convent. The tragic consequence of a neurotic young woman committing to a life of isolation and piety, the inquest concludes. But this young woman held unusual power over the convent - power she was planning to use. Jemima Shore tries to keep her distance from the case, but when her lover cancels their holiday she finds herself reluctantly getting involved. A violent attack in the dead of night and another death convinces her that the convent is not the haven of peace it appears to be. Suspicion and fear hang heavy in the air but how do you solve a murder no-one will admit happened?