So this question might be a little morbid, but it seems like nunneries would be easy /attractive targets for thieves, roaming hordes and rapists. A place filled with women, no men around, a lot of them old/frail. How were these places and the nuns themselves protected throughout more brutal time periods?
Was it simply isolation and dressing as nonsexual as possible? Seems like it had to be more.
EDIT: Thanks for all the comments. Convent was the word I was looking for, I just kept thinking of the “get thee to a nunnery” line in Hamlet. Everything I know about life in a convent is pretty much from Sound of Music and a handful of shows.
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All these folks talking about community protection are ignoring the simple math of trying to break into a bunker and avoid getting beaten into submission by an angry mob. Why risk it when you could just mug people on the street or the road?
A thief wants to cart away stuff they can sell or eat with the minimum of hassle. Where there is one old nun, there are sure to be plenty of young nuns as well. So the person wanting to rob them would have to break into a sturdy, labyrinthian building which is functionally fortified against armed entry and have to fight off a bunch of angry adults.
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