Invisible city : the architecture of devotion in seventeenth century Neapolitan convents / / Helen Hills

• Autore: Hills Helen
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2004; ©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; Aristocracy (Social class) - Italy - Naples
• Soggetto geografico: Naples (Italy) Religious life and customs; Naples (Italy) Church history
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references 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: Analyzes 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.
• 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.: 9910784670903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II