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Nuns As Historians in Early Modern Germany (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Nuns As Historians in Early Modern Germany - Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs Author:Charlotte Woodford This is the first study to highlight the significance of nuns' writings in early modern Germany. Combining scholarly analysis with illuminating case studies--such as an abbess's account of the Reformation, a prioress's diary from the Thirty Years' War, and a biography of a fifteenth-century visionary--Charlotte Woodford introduces the much negle... more »cted female historians of the era, and sets their writings in an historical and literary context.« less