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Nails in the wall : Catholic nuns in Reformation Germany /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leonard, Amy, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Series:Women in culture and society.
Subjects:
Dominican sisters > France > Strasbourg.
Reformation > Germany.
Germany > Church history > 16th century.
Strasbourg (France) > Church history > 16th century.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Life behind the walls : the establishment and growth of the Dominican convents
  • From neighbor to neighbor : Reformation theories of the utility of the cloister
  • The Reformation confronts the convents
  • The ties that bind : nuns, families, and magistrates
  • The empire strikes back : the Counter-Reformation in Strasbourg
  • Nuns as whores : the closing of St. Nicholas-in-Undis.