Invisible City The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents

Name: Invisible City The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents
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ISBN: 9780195117745

ISBN-10: 0195117743

ISBN-13: 9780195117745

Edition: 2002

Authors: Helen Hills

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More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city's power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in…

Book details

List price: $155.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/25/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Invisible City


Introduction Convents and Conventual Life in Early Modern Italy



Cittadelle Sacre and the Politics of Conventual Urbanism



Virginity and Enclosure



Dowries and Daughters



Living like Ladies: Conventual Patronage



Convents and Conflict: Conventual Urbanism in Naples



Conventual Optics of Power


Conclusion: Conventual Architecture as Metaphor for the Body


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index