Expressing selfhood in the convent: anonymous chronicling and subsumed autobiography

Convent autobiography took many forms. We find it in conversion narratives and vidas por mandato, as well as in less obvious places, including chronicles, trans-lations, poetry, saints’ lives and the myriad forms of governance documents that structured convent life. Sometimes nuns wrote under their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Hyning, V
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015