Virgins of Venice by Mary Laven
The idea for this story came to me as I was standing in line at a local gift store and I overheard someone talking about the recent turtle watch, where people go down to the beach where a sea turtle has laid her eggs in the sand to watch the babies hatch. The woman said that she had heard that many of the little ones don't reach the ocean because they are grabbed up by sea gulls as they run down to the sea. The woman she was talking to remarked that it was lucky that turtles have shells; otherwise, many predators would be able to have them for lunch. And that was it. Enjoy, Murray Rivette
Mary Laven is Reader in Early Modern European History, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent, winner of the 2002 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East. Her articles on early modern Italy and Europe, with particular focus on religion, gender and sociability, have appeared in Historical Journal and Renaissance Quarterly. Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History atTulane University in New Orleans. Her work on women, race, and religion has appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly and in Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 (Chapel Hill, 2007).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780670031832 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670031836 |
| Title | Virgins of Venice |
| Author | Mary Laven |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 2003-03-10 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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