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008			850305s1986 nyu b 001 0beng
020			_a0195036751
020			_a9780195036756
020			_a0195042255 _q(pbk.)
020			_a9780195042252 _q(pbk.)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dUKM _dISS _dBAKER _dNLGGC _dBTCTA _dTBS _dIBV _dYDXCP _dNLE _dBUF _dP4I _dZWZ _dCHRRO _dBDX _dGBVCP _dOCLCO _dOCLCA _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dLHU _dOCLCQ _dUtOrBLW
050	0	0	_aBX4705.C3134 _bB76 1986
050	1	4	_aHQ75 B878i 1986
082	0	0	_a271/.97/0924 _219
082	0	4	_a306.7/663/0924 _aB _222
100	1		_aBrown, Judith C
245	1	0	_aImmodest acts : _bthe life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy / _cJudith C. Brown
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1986
300			_aviii, 214 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
500			_ainclude index
520			_a"The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history. Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with Christ. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta's fall from an abbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama."--Amazon.ca
650		0	_aLesbian nuns _zItaly _vBiography
650		0	_aLesbianism _xHistory
650		0	_aLesbians _xAttitudes
650		0	_aWomen _xSexual behavior _xHistory
650		0	_aRenaissance _zItaly
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