This thesis treats these institutions as an integrated feature of Venetian society, and seeks to illuminate the interactions between nunneries and the outside world at a time when ecclesiastical and state authorities were united in their determination to isolate female religious both physically and emotionally. 1 Venetian Nunneries in the Counter-Reformation, Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leicester by Mary Rachel Laven Department of History University of Leicester March 1997Ģ VENETIAN NUNNERIES IN THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, MARY LAVEN ABSTRACT In the period following the Council of Trent there were over fifty convents in Venice and its surrounding islands, at times housing more than 3000 nuns.
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