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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Main Author: Woshinsky, Barbara R. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2010
In:Year: 2010
Reviews: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)
Series/Journal:Women and gender in the early modern world
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B France / Convent / Nun / Reception / Literature / History 1600-1800
Further subjects: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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Summary: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
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0754667545