| Within past two decades, Europe and America historical circles have got plentiful achievements on research of nuns in Renaissance period, since Gabriella Zarri did the path-breaking works in 1986. Research of nuns in Catholic Reformation period has appeared comparatively weak. According to this, this article will choose event of Cloistering Nuns in 1563 as enter point and put it in deep background of Catholic Reformation to discuss the cause, effect and process of this change.Firstly, the article described the general situation of convent in early modern Italian city, including the function of convent in Catholic society which explaining the reason of its existence and the problems existing in convent, which provided one reason for later Catholic Reformation. Secondly, the article will narrate how clausura law came, out in 1563. On this base, by tracking development of Cloistering Nuns thought, It shows that how enclosure was equal to monk and nuns turn exclusively to nuns. Meantime, through talking about the omission of Trent council—tertaries nuns, explained the conflict between Cloistering Nuns and the needs of time. Thirdly, by introducing concepts of social control and social discipline, this chapter will talk about the motivation of discipline, contents and means of discipline and the difficulties of administration and the effect of discipline imposed from church and country. Lastly, this article discuss that how nuns resist and breach claustura. Some nuns leave from convent by applying for the annulment of her vows. Some nuns flee away from convent. Majority of nuns break claustura on spiritual or thoughtful level by forms of literature and art, they performed convent theatre or music to attract secular people to enter convent, and establish straight contacts with them. All this proved, church authority doesn't get its expecting aim, and nuns were not always the passive receiver of policy imposed from above.
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