Imagining women's conventual spaces in France, 1600 - 1800: the cloister disclosed

Blending history with literary analysis, this 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 enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters...

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Autor principal: Woshinsky, Barbara R. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2010
En:Año: 2010
Críticas:Imagining women's conventual spaces in France, 1600–1800. The cloister disclosed. By Barbara R. Woshinksy. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xvii+344 incl. 4 frontispieces and 22 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2010. £65. 978 0 7546 6754 4 (2012) (Copeland, Clare)
[Rezension von: Woshinsky, Barbara R., Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600–1800: The Cloister Disclosed. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World] (2013) (Mihǎilǎ, Ramona)
Colección / Revista:Women and gender in the early modern world
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Frankreich / Convento femenino / Monja / Recepción / Literatura / Historia 1600-1800
Otras palabras clave:B Monastic and religious life of women France History 17th century
B Convents in literature
B Monastic and religious life of women France History 18th century
B French Literature 17th century History and criticism
B Literature, Modern 18th century History and criticism
B Human body in literature
B Women in literature
B Space and time in literature
B Nuns in literature
B Literature, Modern 17th century History and criticism
B French Literature 16th century History and criticism
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Sumario:Blending history with literary analysis, this 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 enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
Descripción Física:XIV, 344 S., Ill., 24 cm
ISBN:978-0-7546-6754-4
0-7546-6754-5

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