02819nam 2200673 450 991078467090332120230207224215.00-19-771397-10-19-028357-21-280-47100-X1-4237-6126-X0-19-535353-61-60256-248-2(CKB)1000000000363214(EBL)271717(OCoLC)437173157(SSID)ssj0000183445(PQKBManifestationID)12037369(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183445(PQKBWorkID)10195366(PQKB)10081114(Au-PeEL)EBL4701932(CaPaEBR)ebr11273342(CaONFJC)MIL47100(OCoLC)65192710(MiAaPQ)EBC4701932(EXLCZ)99100000000036321420161012h20042004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInvisible city the architecture of devotion in seventeenth century Neapolitan convents /Helen HillsNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,2004.©20041 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511774-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; INTRODUCTION: Convents and Conventual Life in Early Modern Italy; 1 Cittadelle sacre and the Politics of Conventual Urbanism; 2 Virginity and Enclosure; 3 Dowries and Daughters; 4 Living Like Ladies: Conventual Patronage; 5 Convents and Conflict: Conventual Urbanism in Naples; 6 Conventual Optics of Power; CONCLUSION: Conventual Architecture as Metaphor for the Body; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; IndexAnalyzes conventual architecture in terms of the politics of sight, ""the optics of power"", and the relationship between flesh and stone. This work uncovers the connections between the bodies of the nuns and the walls that housed them, presenting the architecture of female convents as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic female virgin nun.Monastic and religious life of womenItalyNaplesHistoryConventsItalyNaplesAristocracy (Social class)ItalyNaplesNaples (Italy)Religious life and customsNaples (Italy)Church historyMonastic and religious life of womenHistory.ConventsAristocracy (Social class)271/.9004573Hills Helen241843MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784670903321Invisible city736258UNINA