Anne Jacobson Schutte: 1 book
By Force and Fear
Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped...
