Tag: Nuns

Free Download Constance Hoffman Berman, "The White Nuns: Cistercian Abbeys for Women in Medieval France "
English | ISBN: 0812250109 | 2018 | 368 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Modern studies of the religious reform movement of the central Middle Ages have often relied on contemporary accounts penned by Cistercian monks, who routinely exaggerated the importance of their own institutions while paying scant attention to the remarkable expansion of abbeys of Cistercian women. Yet by the end of the thirteenth century, Constance Hoffman Berman contends, there were more houses of Cistercian nuns across Europe than of monks. In The White Nuns, she charts the stages in the nuns’ gradual acceptance by the abbots of the Cistercian Order’s General Chapter and describes the expansion of the nuns’ communities and their adaptation to a variety of economic circumstances in France and throughout Europe. While some sought contemplative lives of prayer, the ambition of many of these religious women was to serve the poor, the sick, and the elderly.

Free Download Deirdre Raftery, "Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World: A Transnational History "
English | ISBN: 3031462009 | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book charts the history of how Irish-born nuns became involved in education in the Anglophone world. It presents a heretofore undocumented study of how these women left Ireland to establish convent schools and colleges for women around the globe. It challenges the dominant narrative that suggests that Irish teaching Sisters, also commonly called nuns, were part of the colonial project, and shows how they developed their own powerful transnational networks. Though they played a role in the education of the ‘daughters of the Empire’, they retained strong bonds with Ireland, reproducing their own Irish education in many parts of the Anglophone world.

Free Download Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India By Gregory Schopen
2014 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 0824838807 | PDF | 4 MB
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today’s most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.

Free Download Cesar D. Favila, "Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain "
English | ISBN: 0197621899 | 2023 | 360 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 43 MB
In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a co-redeemer alongside her son. Praise for this complicated devotion took place in Europe throughout the medieval period and resounded in the Americas with the founding of the first convent in Mexico City under the Order of the Immaculate Conception in 1540. All other orders of nuns in New Spain branched out from this convent, spreading the Marian devotion throughout the region.

Free Download Craig A. Monson, "Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy"
English | 2011 | pages: 258 | ISBN: 0226534723, 0226534618 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now.