Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600�1800: The Cloister Disclosed
(Part of the Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series)
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Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later. In the intervening time, women within convent walls were both captives and refugees from an outside...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0754667545
ISBN13:9780754667544
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:Routledge
Length:362 Pages
Weight:1.51 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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