Convent Wisdom
Autor Ana Garriga, Carmen Urbitaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 noi 2025
'Profoundly useful and pleasure seeking' EILEEN MYLES
'A fizzy joy to read' BETSY CORNWELL
An infectiously edifying manual that mines the lives of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century nuns, offering advice for our modern age and proving one thing: no matter the century, nuns know best.
When most of us think of nuns, we picture solemn shuffles down cloistered halls and hands clasped in prayer. But what about the nuns who erupted into jealous fights over makeup or crushed on their girlfriends? In reality, these women were no one-dimensional martyrs. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century nuns were resourceful, rebellious and refreshingly relatable - and their lives hold surprising lessons for us today.
Convent Wisdom is your guide to navigating the chaos of the modern world with help from history's most fascinating nuns. Struggling with money? Saint Teresa and her fellow Carmelites have some divine budgeting hacks. Drowning in FOMO while scrolling through social media? Mary of Jesus of Ágreda's miraculous ability to be in two places at once might teach you how to finally keep up. Lost in the digital dating pool? Benedetta Carlini's treatise on the seven ways to spot a lesbian nun may offer unexpected insights.
Blending rigorous research with pop culture and personal anecdotes throughout, best friends Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita lift the veil on monastic life so you can better conquer today's anxiety-ridden, hyper-connected world. From procrastination to imposter syndrome, friendship drama to creativity slumps, the nuns of Convent Wisdom are here to guide you - with a wink and a prayer.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526680709
ISBN-10: 152668070X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 143 x 222 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 152668070X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 143 x 222 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
This self-help book by two scholarly BFFs is full of wisdom gleaned from the lives of 16th and 17th-century nuns like Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Saint Teresa that is applicable to your most modern quandries. The cheeky and insightful volume is also brimming with fascinating historical details, like the penchants of some nuns for side hustles and eating spiders
Nuns have long peppered my own writing because that's exactly what they are. Incendiary stuff. I tout this book madly because this is the back story that explains the inquisition we are now living through as well as revealing the fact that sixteenth-century nuns had the internet. I am panting with joy. And it's a wormhole into the elaborate, interior museum, sex club, library, bakery, community space and in diaspora the convent always was. Carmen and Ana, I thank you mightily for this profoundly useful and pleasure-seeking book
When it comes to advice on life and love, where else would you turn besides sixteenth century nuns? Convent Wisdom is here to help us get in the habit of learning from the past
Playful and inventive, Convent Wisdom is a delight for the intellectually curious reader. A pair of witty scholar-storytellers, Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita, share stories of their devotion to each other and of the 16th-century nuns whose lives parallel ours in surprising ways. Through some alchemy they've transformed what could have been a survey course in historical religious figures into a treasure chest of revelations and nuggets of self-help
An invitation to sit at the cool nuns' table, Convent Wisdom is for anyone who longs for more sisterhood, solitude, or sapphic drama (who doesn't?). It's at once juicy and funny and meticulously researched, an educational deep dive that's also a fizzy joy to read. I'm already planning to gift it to several of my honourary sisters this year. I loved it!
A wonderfully entertaining book. . . Convent Wisdom shows us that monasticism is not an anachronism, but rather a deep well from which we can draw guidance and comfort. The lives of the sisters and saints in Convent Wisdom are as relevant today as they were in their own time
Pick up Convent Wisdom for the clever cover art and intriguing title, stay for the fascinating stories and nun-ly wisdom ... With impressive research and writerly aplomb ... the duo enthusiastically populate seven sections - Girlfriends, Work, Body, Love, Money, Soul and Fame - with richly detailed, entertaining stories of indomitable, inspiring nuns ... Garriga and Urbita clearly regard the nuns as galvanizing influences and treasured friends; perhaps we should, too
With no shortage of comical but also keenly observed comparisons between past and future, [Convent Wisdom] charms
Popular religious history from a millennial perspective, served with a tongue-in-cheek slice of self-help ... Pithy comparisons catapulting the medieval into the modern abound, with comparisons of ecstatic religious choreography to Dua Lupa's moves or postmortem incorruptibility as superior to Botox
Convent Wisdom is above all an enormously funny, delightfully exaggerated, and sparkling book by two smart and spirited women. They have a wonderfully entertaining way of writing about a seemingly ultra-boring and unsexy subject: nuns. Using self-deprecation and irony, but done with respect - no one will regret taking a little stay-at-home retreat with this 'convent to go'
Convent Wisdom is as accessible as it is educational; told through witty prose and with vivid historical narratives, it's a self-help book that is completely devoid of artifice. This is thanks in large part to its pitch perfect balance of nuanced analysis and research with humor and honesty
A cheeky exploration of the lives of cloistered nuns who, from a centuries-old vantage point, impart lessons applicable to the generational malaise and angst bedeviling modern life ... While frequently funny, Convent Wisdom deploys historical scholarship to challenge misconceptions of cloistered nuns as tame, and monastic life as severe and oppressive
We're having a vision: nuns are everywhere ... [Convent Wisdom] is proof of that: it shares nunnery insight that's more astute and intelligent than anything you'll find on Instagram, covering not only cloisters, candlelight, mortifications and hushed prayers but also friendship, money, FOMO, love, lesbianism, procrastination, imposter syndrome, work, fame and pop culture
A charming and quirky dual memoir
Garriga and Urbita are historians who include detailed accounts of the nuns' lives. But their careful attention to historicity does not make for dry storytelling (.) The internet slang is funny, the nuns' stories are engaging, but perhaps the most profound story is that of the friendship between the two authors
From taking control of your finances to navigating mental health, here are the solid life lessons we can learn from the convent
Well, sisters, now there's a self-help book. I have been reading, and highly recommend, Convent Wisdom, a delightful glimpse into the colourful lives of counter-reformation nuns. The florid religiosity (levitation, mystical visions, eating cat sick and cobwebs) might not be entirely relatable, but it's thrilling to learn how powerful, purposeful women managed the unreasonable demands of male authority figures, made ends meet and lived on their own (and God's) terms
Nuns have long peppered my own writing because that's exactly what they are. Incendiary stuff. I tout this book madly because this is the back story that explains the inquisition we are now living through as well as revealing the fact that sixteenth-century nuns had the internet. I am panting with joy. And it's a wormhole into the elaborate, interior museum, sex club, library, bakery, community space and in diaspora the convent always was. Carmen and Ana, I thank you mightily for this profoundly useful and pleasure-seeking book
When it comes to advice on life and love, where else would you turn besides sixteenth century nuns? Convent Wisdom is here to help us get in the habit of learning from the past
Playful and inventive, Convent Wisdom is a delight for the intellectually curious reader. A pair of witty scholar-storytellers, Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita, share stories of their devotion to each other and of the 16th-century nuns whose lives parallel ours in surprising ways. Through some alchemy they've transformed what could have been a survey course in historical religious figures into a treasure chest of revelations and nuggets of self-help
An invitation to sit at the cool nuns' table, Convent Wisdom is for anyone who longs for more sisterhood, solitude, or sapphic drama (who doesn't?). It's at once juicy and funny and meticulously researched, an educational deep dive that's also a fizzy joy to read. I'm already planning to gift it to several of my honourary sisters this year. I loved it!
A wonderfully entertaining book. . . Convent Wisdom shows us that monasticism is not an anachronism, but rather a deep well from which we can draw guidance and comfort. The lives of the sisters and saints in Convent Wisdom are as relevant today as they were in their own time
Pick up Convent Wisdom for the clever cover art and intriguing title, stay for the fascinating stories and nun-ly wisdom ... With impressive research and writerly aplomb ... the duo enthusiastically populate seven sections - Girlfriends, Work, Body, Love, Money, Soul and Fame - with richly detailed, entertaining stories of indomitable, inspiring nuns ... Garriga and Urbita clearly regard the nuns as galvanizing influences and treasured friends; perhaps we should, too
With no shortage of comical but also keenly observed comparisons between past and future, [Convent Wisdom] charms
Popular religious history from a millennial perspective, served with a tongue-in-cheek slice of self-help ... Pithy comparisons catapulting the medieval into the modern abound, with comparisons of ecstatic religious choreography to Dua Lupa's moves or postmortem incorruptibility as superior to Botox
Convent Wisdom is above all an enormously funny, delightfully exaggerated, and sparkling book by two smart and spirited women. They have a wonderfully entertaining way of writing about a seemingly ultra-boring and unsexy subject: nuns. Using self-deprecation and irony, but done with respect - no one will regret taking a little stay-at-home retreat with this 'convent to go'
Convent Wisdom is as accessible as it is educational; told through witty prose and with vivid historical narratives, it's a self-help book that is completely devoid of artifice. This is thanks in large part to its pitch perfect balance of nuanced analysis and research with humor and honesty
A cheeky exploration of the lives of cloistered nuns who, from a centuries-old vantage point, impart lessons applicable to the generational malaise and angst bedeviling modern life ... While frequently funny, Convent Wisdom deploys historical scholarship to challenge misconceptions of cloistered nuns as tame, and monastic life as severe and oppressive
We're having a vision: nuns are everywhere ... [Convent Wisdom] is proof of that: it shares nunnery insight that's more astute and intelligent than anything you'll find on Instagram, covering not only cloisters, candlelight, mortifications and hushed prayers but also friendship, money, FOMO, love, lesbianism, procrastination, imposter syndrome, work, fame and pop culture
A charming and quirky dual memoir
Garriga and Urbita are historians who include detailed accounts of the nuns' lives. But their careful attention to historicity does not make for dry storytelling (.) The internet slang is funny, the nuns' stories are engaging, but perhaps the most profound story is that of the friendship between the two authors
From taking control of your finances to navigating mental health, here are the solid life lessons we can learn from the convent
Well, sisters, now there's a self-help book. I have been reading, and highly recommend, Convent Wisdom, a delightful glimpse into the colourful lives of counter-reformation nuns. The florid religiosity (levitation, mystical visions, eating cat sick and cobwebs) might not be entirely relatable, but it's thrilling to learn how powerful, purposeful women managed the unreasonable demands of male authority figures, made ends meet and lived on their own (and God's) terms