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The nuns of Sant' Ambrogio : the true story of a convent scandal /
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 was being abused and feared for her life. The subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered illicit beh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The NUNS Of SANT'AMBROGIO: THE TRUE STORY OF A CONVENT SCANDAL; Copyright; Contents; Dramatis Personae; Prologue: "Save, Save Me!"; CHAPTER ONE: "Such Turpitudes": Katharina von Hohenzollern Complains to the Inquisition; ROME AS A HEAVENLY JERUSALEM; A ROAD-TO-DAMASCUSEXPERIENCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES; A ROMAN CLOISTERED IDYLL; SALVATION FROM A CLOISTERED HELL; DENUNCIATION AS A MORAL DUTY; THE SECRET OF SANT'AMBROGIO; A POSSESSED SEDUCER OF NUNS; A FALSE SAINT; POISONING; THE SAVIOR'S PERSPECTIVE.
- CHAPTER TWO: "The 'Delicatezza' of the Matter as Such": Extrajudicial Preliminary InvestigationsINFORMAL QUESTIONING; THE OUTCAST'S TESTIMONY; TWO NUNS IN A BED; UNCHASTITY AND SODOMY; A DOMINICAN WANTS THE DETAILS; MANY CONVINCING PROOFS; AN INQUISITION TRIAL, AFTER ALL; THE INQUISITION TRIBUNAL: PROCESSES AND PROTAGONISTS; THE SOURCES FROM THE ARCHIVE OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH; CHAPTER THREE: "I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters": The Informative Process and the Devotees of the Mother Founder; THE CONVENT OF SANT'AMBROGIO DELLA MASSIMA.
- FRANCISCANS OF THE THIRD ORDERAGNESE FIRRAO IS VENERATED AS A SAINT; AGNESE FIRRAO IS ACCUSED OF FALSE HOLINESS; THE INQUISITION'S 1816 VERDICT; THE MIRACULOUS CONVERSION OF LEO XII; TRUE AND FALSE HOLINESS; PROOF OF THE CONTINUING CULT OF FIRRAO; THE SECRET ABBESS; RELICS; INSPIRED TEXTS; A "MOTHER CONFESSOR"; THE CONFESSORS PROCLAIM THE FALSE CULT; CHAPTER FOUR: "Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming": The Madre Vicaria's Pretense of Holiness; VISIONS ON THE ROAD TO POWER; MYSTICISM; THE EARTHLY ORIGINS OF HEAVENLY RINGS AND THE SCENT OF ROSES; LETTERS FROM THE MOTHER OF GOD.
- THE MARIAN CENTURYFORGING LETTERS FROM THE VIRGIN; PASTORAL CARE IN BED; LESBIAN INTIMACIES IN A CONVENT CELL; THE SANT'AMBROGIO SYSTEM; CHAPTER FIVE: "An Act of Divine Splendor": Murder on the Orders of the Virgin; THE AMERICANO AND HIS OBSCENE LETTER; THE CORD AROUND KATHARINA'S NECK; HEAVENLY LETTERS FORETELL KATHARINA'S MURDER; THE DRAMATURGY OF A POISONING; "IT WAS MOST CERTAINLY THE DEVIL"; MORE MURDERS; PENNIES FROM HEAVEN; THE CONFESSORS AS CONFIDANTS AND ACCOMPLICES; THE RESULTS OF THE INFORMATIVE PROCESS.
- CHAPTER SIX: "It Is a Heavenly Liquor": The Offensive Process and the Interrogation of the Madre Vicaria"I ALWAYS WANTED TO BECOME A NUN"; THE STORY OF AN INNOCENT LAMB; EVIDENCE AND FIRST CONFESSIONS; MARIA LUISA AND HER NOVICES; SEXUAL ABUSE; JESUIT CONFESSORS AND THEIR VERY SPECIAL BLESSING; THE CONFESSOR'S AFFAIR WITH ALESSANDRA N.; MARIA LUISA AND PADRE PETERS: BLESSING OR BEDDING?; "MY ONLY DEFENSE IS JESUS CHRIST"; CHAPTER SEVEN: "That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God": The Interrogations of the Father Confessor and the Abbess; GIUSEPPE LEZIROLI: A CONFESSOR BEFORE THE COURT.