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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I did a local tour of my city once, which talked about life in the 16th century (I live in a small European city). The nuns had access to several buildings, which were connected through underground passages. That way, they could move between buildings at evening/nighttime and be safe. That is all I can add about this topic, how the buildings themselves were protected is not clear to me.
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