Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800 - The Cloister Disclosed - Hardback - 2010

Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. This title focuses on two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later.
Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 360 pages, includes 26 b&w illustrations
Format: Hardback
Serie: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World