Female Convents of Lisbon, 1640 to 1750
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces, which housed generations of elite women. Until now, they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early modern Roman Catholic world.
This book begins to tell the complex history of Lisbon’s convents and to explore the experience of those women and girls who ...
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces, which housed generations of elite women. Until now, they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early modern Roman Catholic world.
This book begins to tell the complex history of Lisbon’s convents and to explore the experience of those women and girls who ...
