... the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact [email protected]. Abstract Scholarship on early modern English musical culture remains dominated by the activities of male musicians and male institutions. Despite the drastic growth of English convent studies...

... discuss the motivation behind my scholarship, and some of the choices I make in presenting it. Verona manuscript convent performance voices methodology narrative In 1994 Suzanne Cusick was offered the opportunity to respond to Charles Brauner’s critique of her article ‘Gendering modern music...

...-reuse-rights ) Abstract Considers recent arguments about the choirbook Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Ms. dccxli, and a convent in the city where it resides. Verona manuscript convent Masses voices illuminations The large manuscript collection of Mass settings known informally as Verona...

..., beginning in the 1960s. Sister Bonaventure Burke lived in St. Bernard's Convent in Nashville, Tennessee; Sister Gloria Perez is the principal of an inner-city high school in Paterson, New Jersey; Sister Marlene Brownett, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus who lives in a center-hall colonial...

... of ospedali pizzochere third order sisters abbess barco choir gallery nunneries governance of sagrestana Malamocco nunneries finances of nuns habits of buzzoladi nunneries archives of nunneries food at Provveditori sopra Monasteri reform convent finances archives The musical performances...

... and camps. Some Jews sought refuge in the Dominican Convent of the Little Sisters, located about 6 kilometers outside the city on the road from Vilna to Wilejka. In addition to taking care of the Jews in hiding, the nuns exploited the mother superior's connections to obtain documents and money for them...

... of the late sixteenth century became the center of her life and provided an opportunity for self-expression in words and actions normally denied women of her background. Semiliterate when she entered the Discalced Carmelite Convent of Saint Joseph of Avila in 1570, Ana became one of the most prolific writers...

...This chapter focuses on Nakanoin Nakako’s life as a Buddhist nun in the Hōji'in Imperial Convent during the seventeenth century. It begins by providing a few details about Nakako’s elder brother Nakanoin Michimura, who served as military liaison officer for the shogunate. It then considers Nakako’s...

...This chapter covers the experience of Sister Resens de Insula, a thirty-seven-year-old nun at the Holy Cross convent, who captured the limitations of the sacrament of penance succinctly. It reviews how Resens has lived through the first and second mortalities, the mercenary invasions...

...Jacqueline Pascal (1625–1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port–Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority. This book...

... Carey M L M Lorimer Norma desert Nile Sinai sand storm Khargeh convent Sakara Egypt is made up of the narrow green, growing, heavily populated strip on either side of the Nile—and desert. The desert or neardesert stretching on either side of the river and into the Sinai Peninsula makes...

... of Siena to Brother Juniper, the disciple of St. Francis, and how Serra grew in confidence during his years of study and teaching, immersed as he was in the writings of Llull and Scotus. Tibesar Antonine Convent of St Francis of Assisi Crespí Juan Noguera Francesch Palou Francisco Serra Junípero...

...This chapter explores the theme of hospitality in the works of two English romantic poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In The Prelude, his autobiographical epic, Wordsworth laments the violation of monastic hospitality by French soldiers in the Convent...

...Nuns in early modern convents formed a discerning group of writers whose interpretive skills were distinctly shaped by their devotional discipline. This chapter explores their use of particular biblical passages that expose their contemplative concerns, aesthetic impetus, and wider mission...

...This chapter examines the origins of convent reforms at the Santa Clara Convent in Havana, Cuba, which had been a target of reformers for more than a century. It explains that the crown's decision to involve itself in the internal affairs of the Clarist community in Havana was precipitated...

...This chapter examines the slowing of reform at the Santa Clara Convent in Havana, Cuba, during the period from 1770 to 1782. The apparent lull in the pace of the Bourbon Reform program occurred during the decade-long interim between the fall of the Marqués de Esquilache in 1766 and the rise of José...

...This chapter examines the common-life reform at the Santa Clara Convent in Havana, Cuba, during the period from 1782 to 1783. The task of implementing the reforms was given to Manuel Estéves, a Franciscan vicar provincial in Havana. The chapter discusses the opposition to common-life reforms...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on convent reforms in Havana, Cuba, carried out under the auspices of the Spanish Bourbon state and the Catholic Church during the reigns of Charles III during the period from 1761 to 1808. The results indicate that female cloisters...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about convent life in colonial Mexico. This volume examines the rules that governed nunneries and analyzes the daily and personal life of the nuns in convents in Mexico City ad Puebla. It investigates the rewards the nuns...

...This chapter examines the spiritual themes that permeated and guided life in the convent in colonial Mexico. It analyzes the meaning of vows, devotional practices, and the extraordinary power of the faith that sustained the nuns' piety and explains that the foundational promise of conventual life...