Stripping the Veil
Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
Av Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, University of Arizona) Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth (Susan C. Karant-Nunn Professor of Reformation and Early Modern European History, Susan C. Karant-Nunn Professor of Reformation and Early Modern European History, Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies
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Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2022-03-24
- Mått162 x 243 x 26 mm
- Vikt726 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieStudies in German History
- Antal sidor372
- FörlagOUP OXFORD
- ISBN9780192857286
- UtmärkelserWinner, Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, Central European History Society Winner, 2023 Roland H Bainton Book Prize in History and Theology, Sixteenth Century Society