Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany

This is the first study to highlight the significance of nuns'' writings in early modern Germany. Combining scholarly analysis with illuminating case studies--such as an abbess''s account of the Reformation a prioress''s diary from the Thirty Years'' War and a biography of a fifteenth-century visionary--Charlotte Woodford introduces the much neglected female historians of the era and sets their writings in an historical and literary context.