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Detailed and comprehensive, the second volume of the Venns' directory, in six parts, includes all known alumni until 1900.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Influence and Development of English Gilds" (As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury) by Francis Aiden Hibbert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun’s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant...
Translated and Edited with introduction, notes and index by Victor Leuliette, author of "French prose writers of the nineteenth century and after".