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Renaissance Nuns and Their Bodies. Sexuality isn’t normally something we attribute to nuns. But, of course, the sexuality of Renaissance nuns was vitally important. Their lack of sex is precisely what made them effective mediators between the Renaissance faithful and Christ, who was, himself, celibate. While we tend to think of nuns as shrouded in …

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