How Long to Read Lives of Spirit

How Long Does it Take to Read Lives of Spirit?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Lives of Spirit by Nicky Hallett

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that provides historical and cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives, their sources and their authors. Lives of Spirit draws upon several remarkable sets of papers compiled in enclosed convents between 1619 and 1794. These documents show that religious women developed an astute system of auto/biographical practice within a protean political situation, and that, even in exile and from within enclosure, they sought to shape a distinctive contribution to devotional change within a reforming church. This volume reveals how the women's Lives challenge, as well as affirm, notions of gendered spirituality, refiguring traditions of female life-writing that extend from Catherine of Siena (1347 - 80) through the work of the Carmelite reformer, Teresa of Avila (1515 - 82), into the later modern period. The newness of the material in this book allows a radical reappraisal of the self-representation of religious women and of paradigms of life-writing in, and beyond, the early modern period. This book is of significant interest to scholars interested in early modern women's writing, female spirituality, and auto/biography more widely as a genre.

How long is Lives of Spirit?

Lives of Spirit by Nicky Hallett is 310 pages long, and a total of 77,500 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lives of Spirit Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Lives of Spirit aloud.

What Reading Level is Lives of Spirit?

Lives of Spirit is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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