Hubert Wolf (Professor of Eccl Professor of Ecclesiastical History

The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio

The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

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Produktbeschreibung

The true story of a scandal of epic proportions at the Roman convent of Sant' Ambrogio in the late 1850s. Discovered recently in a Vatican archive by one of the world's leading papal historians, it is a tale of deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Originaltitel: Die Nonnen von Sant'Ambrogio
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 164mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 855g
• ISBN-13: 9780198732198
• ISBN-10: 0198732198
• Artikelnr.: 41217986

Autorenporträt

Hubert Wolf is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Muenster in Germany, and has been awarded a number or prizes, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. An internationally renowned scholar of the history of the papacy, his other books include Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich.

Inhaltsangabe

Dramatis Personae
Prologue
1: "Such Turpitudes"
2: "The Delicatezza of the Matter as Such"
3: "I Am the Little Lion of My Reformed Sisters"
4: "Wash Me Well, for the Padre Is Coming"
5: "An Act of Divine Splendor"
6: "It Is a Heavenly Liquor"
7: "That Good Padre Has Spoiled the Work of God"
8: "During These Acts I Never Ceased My Inner Prayer"
9: "Sorrowful and Contrite"
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index