Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany

Provides a new interpretation of convent reform during the sixteenth century Reformation in Germany. Asserts that acknowledging complexity in belief and devotional rituals in convent congregations is one explanation of convent survival. Shows the way that interactions and negotiations between nuns, reformers, and secular officials led to concrete policy changes and theological shifts during the sixteenth century.
Illustrates how devotional culture and confessional boundaries remained fluid well beyond the sixteenth century.