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[telophase]

One of the best parts of working in an academic library is browsing the catalog, clicking trhough to see where things lead, and discovering subject headings like this:

Subject Lesbian nuns -- Italy -- Biography.

We only have one book about lesbian nuns in Italy, but we also have one about lesbian nuns in the US.

And because I know some of you are perking up right now, here's the answer to the question you were about to ask: Brown, Judith C. Immodest acts : the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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[jenett]

It was a really great class. (I did my final paper on accusations about doing magic against other people, and there's this whole fascinating thing where love spells, per se, were not a problem, but love spells to, say, separate your lover from his wife and family (basically anything that destroyed the family unit) was a problem.

And ugh, yes, on that kind of class problem. (The conducting class that broke my ability to listen to classical music for more than a decade was like that: our professor kept wanting it to be an orchestral repertoire class.)