Immodest Acts. The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Paperback/***

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun. Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Author(s): Judith C. (Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University) Brown Number of pages: 224 Collection: Studies in the History of Sexuality Publication date: 1987 Dimensions: 202 x 126 x 19 Cover type: Paperback / softback