Invisible city : the architecture of devotion in seventeenth century Neapolitan convents / / Helen Hills [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Hills Helen
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023; �2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 271/.9004573
• Soggetto topico: Monastic and religious life of women - Italy - Naples - History; Convents - Italy - Naples; Church architecture - Italy - Naples; Aristocracy (Social class) - Italy - Naples
• Soggetto geografico: Naples (Italy) Religious life and customs; Naples (Italy) Church history
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This text analyzes conventual architecture in terms of the politics of sight, 'the optics of power' - the relationship between flesh and stone. It uncovers the connections between the bodies of the nuns and the walls that housed them.
• Titolo autorizzato: Invisible city
• ISBN: 0-19-771397-1; 0-19-028357-2; 1-280-47100-X; 1-4237-6126-X; 0-19-535353-6; 1-60256-248-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821352303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.