Bernarda Munoz

By Force and Fear

• Author(s): Anne Jacobson Schutte

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011-07-07
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• Publisher: Cornell University Press

An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped by literary sources such as Manzoni’s The Betrothed—are badly off the mark. Drawing on records of the Congregation of the Council, held in the Vatican Archive, Schutte examines nearly one thousand petitions for annulment of monastic vows submitted to the Pope and adjudicated by the Council during a 125-year period, from 1668 to 1793. She considers petitions from Roman Catholic regions a...

Memoria del Comisario Regio, nombrado por Real decreto de 13 de abril de 1885 para la reedificación de los pueblos destruidos por los terremotos en las provincias de Granada y Málaga

• Author(s): España. Comisaría Regia, Fermín de Lasala y Collado

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1888
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Polk City Directory

• Categories: Allentown (Pa.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Poesias

• Author(s): Ubaldo P. Pasarón y Lastra

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1860
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Faro nacional

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1852
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• Publisher: Unknown

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