Letters to a Nun
Monastic Music in Early Modern Malta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10090205 |
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| Authors | Petra Caruana Dingli (0009-0007-2042-9989, University of Malta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 562-578 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046919002318 |
| OpenAlex | W3006279530 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines the performance of music in a Maltese female Benedictine monastery in the early modern period in relation to prevailing attitudes towards monastic music and polyphony. By placing these letters in their social and cultural context, it also offers fresh insights into female literacy in early modern Malta. The discussion centres on a set of fifteen unpublished letters that provide a rare example of a woman in early eighteenth-century Malta engaged in a written exchange of theological and philosophical ideas
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Maltese · Middle Ages · Pedagogy · Period (music · Polyphony · Relation (database · Sociology · Classics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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