Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany

Renaissance Quarterly, Spring, 2004 by James A. Parente, Jr.

Woodford's study is an invaluable guide to German convent writing. Thanks to her efforts, scholars can now compare the works of these Catholic writers with similar histories in Protestant religious communities and with the religious writing of other early modern women. It is a pity, therefore, that the publisher elected not to translate the extensive German quotations (many of which are in challenging Bavarian German) into English, so that more readers could appreciate them.

JAMES A. PARENTE, JR.

University of Minnesota

COPYRIGHT 2004 The Renaissance Society of America
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning

 

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