Nuns Behaving Badly : Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy (Hardcover)

from baswood

Natalie F Smith was responsible for the book and Cover design for this University of Chicago Press publication and the above image appears both on the spine and on the back cover of the book. I can only think that Chicago University Press were desperate to sell some books because the image bears ...

from Devil_llama

Anyone reading just the title of this book could be forgiven for assuming it might be about sexual adventures in the convent. This couldn't be further from the case. In fact, it's a delightful book about nun misadventures that says more about the church and its attitudes towards women than it doe...

from datrappert

Scholarly but well-written account of a few instances of cloistered nuns trying to break out of their closely restricted freedom. As a non-Catholic (and non-religious) person, this book was quite enlightening about how convents were places where noble families could park their unneeded daughters ...