Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800: The Cloister Disclosed

by Barbara R. Woshinsky

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"