Descripción
A Washington Post Notable Book
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 feared for her life. A subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered the shocking secrets of a convent ruled by a beautiful young mistress, who coerced her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies, and who entered into an illicit relationship with a young theologian. Drawing upon written testimony and original documents discovered in a secret Vatican archive, The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio is the never-before-told true story of how one woman was able to practice deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.Author: Hubert Wolf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 01/12/2016
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780804169806
ISBN10: 0804169802
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Religion | Christian Church | History
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic
About the Author
Hubert Wolf, born in 1959, is professor of Medieval and Modern Church History at the University of Muenster, Germany. He was honored with the Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Award, and the Gutenberg Prize, and he was fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich.