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