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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b496923.
- catalog coverage "Italy History 16th century.".
- catalog created "1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1986.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 165-206.".
- catalog description "The family -- The convent -- The nun -- The first investigation -- The second investigation.".
- catalog extent "viii, 214 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195036751".
- catalog identifier "0195042255 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the history of sexuality".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy History 16th century.".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog spatial "Italy.".
- catalog subject "306.7/663/0924 B 19".
- catalog subject "BX4705.C3134 B76 1986".
- catalog subject "Carlini, Benedetta.".
- catalog subject "Italy Catholic Church Nuns: Carlini, Benedetta - Biographies".
- catalog subject "Lesbian nuns Italy Biography.".
- catalog subject "Lesbianism History.".
- catalog subject "Lesbians Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Renaissance Italy.".
- catalog subject "Women Sexual behavior History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The family -- The convent -- The nun -- The first investigation -- The second investigation.".
- catalog title "Immodest acts : the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy / Judith C. Brown.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".