216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces, which housed generations of elite women. Until now, they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early modern Roman Catholic world.
This book begins to tell the complex history of Lisbon’s convents and to explore the experience of those women and girls... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Economies
Chapter 2: Organisation
Chapter 3: Courtly Nuns
Chapter 4: Servitude and enslavement
Epilogue and Conclusions
Biography
Ben James is a historian of early modern Portugal and completed his doctoral research at King’s College, London.
