The Princess Nun

Author : Gina Cogan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Nun written by Gina Cogan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of a premodern Japanese nun, The Princess Nun is the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshōji. The study incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion.

Author : J. P. Reedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781070476162
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Nun written by J. P. Reedman and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent into a convent at the age of six, Mary daughter of Edward I, decides to make the best of a bad situation. It soon becomes obvious she is never going to make a good nun! Never forgetting that she is a princess by birth, the feisty gambler travels around England, living the high life at daddy's expense, and acquiring numerous other bad "habits" ... including being linked romantically to the Earl of Surrey, John de Warenne.When her Father the King becomes ill and dies, the crown goes to Mary's brother Edward II and the travelling nun attends his disastrous Coronation, rubbing shoulders with the hated Piers Gaveston. For the first time, she is uneasy about the future. Leaving her wayward life behind, she retires to spending a quiet life in Amesbury Priory where she decides to have a chronicle written on the life of her family - a book that exists today.

Author : Gina Cogan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175410
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Nun written by Gina Cogan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Princess Nun tells the story of Bunchi (1619–1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshōji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern Japanese nun, this book incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi’s ascetic practice and religious reforms to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. Gina Cogan’s approach moves beyond the dichotomy of oppression and liberation that dogs the study of non-Western and premodern women to show how Bunchi’s aristocratic status enabled her to carry out reforms despite her gender, while simultaneously acknowledging how that same status contributed to their conservative nature. Cogan’s analysis of how Bunchi used her prestigious position to further her goals places the book in conversation with other works on powerful religious women, like Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Avila. Through its illumination of the relationship between the court and the shogunate and its analysis of the practice of courtly Buddhism from a female perspective, this study brings historical depth and fresh theoretical insight into the role of gender and class in early Edo Buddhism.

Author : Henrietta Caracciolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princess of Forino, Ex-Benedictine Nun written by Henrietta Caracciolo and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Ross Williamson
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780718114572
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess a Nun! written by Hugh Ross Williamson and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hubert Wolf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351925
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio written by Hubert Wolf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.

Author : Jacqueline George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980548440
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prince and the Nun written by Jacqueline George and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Central Europe in about 1940. Absorbing and sexy, a serious portrayal of a woman struggling to protect her friends and community in war time. A great romance.

Author : Liévain Bonaventure Proyart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The life of madame Louise, a Carmelite nun, and daughter of Louis xv., king of France, transl written by Liévain Bonaventure Proyart and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugo Vickers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312288867
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice written by Hugo Vickers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the mother-in-law of the present queen of England ... bridging the tumultuous history of 20th century Europe and intertwined with the tragedy and glory of that era.

Author : Liévin-Bonaventure Proyart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Madame Louise, a Carmelite Nun, and Daughter of Louis XV., King of France. ... Translated written by Liévin-Bonaventure Proyart and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: