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An Escaped Nun
An Escaped Nun
The publication of Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu by Maria Monk captivated hundreds of thousands of Americans when it appeared in 1836. The runaway nun’s allegations against t...
Escaped Nuns
Escaped Nuns
Just five weeks after its publication in January 1836, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery sold over 20,000 copies. By “escaped nun,” Maria Monk, the book provided a shocki...
An Italian Monk in Merovingian Gaul
An Italian Monk in Merovingian Gaul
This chapter considers Jonas of Bobbio not only as one of the most important writers of the seventh century but also as an individual and historical figure in his own right whom it...
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1...
Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I
Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I
The second volume of this four-volume set of Latin chronicles, edited by Richard Howlett (1841–1917) and published between 1884 and 1889, contains the fifth and final book of the H...
Art Since 1940
Art Since 1940
Jonathan Fineberg, European Art, January 24, 2000, Prentice Hall College Div...