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Convent Networks in Early Modern Italy

by Saundra Weddle, Marilyn Dunn

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers
  • 16.1 x 23.9 x 2.6 cm

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The walls of early modern convents suggested the existence of absolute conditions that seldom existed in reality. While the built enclosure communicated the convent's isolation from the world outside, connections between women religious and individuals or groups outside their communities extended into and from these houses, with each constituency exploiting these associations to serve its own aims. Likewise, the walls conveyed the presence of a homogeneous and unified community where, often, differences in status, power, and other interests led to the development of internal alliances and factions. Building on an upsurge of scholarly interest in convent networks that previously has not been focused in a single volume, this collection of interdisciplinary essays examines how and why such associations existed. The collection examines personal, spatial, and temporal networks that emerged in, among, and beyond convents in Italy during the early modern period. These ties were established, cultivated, or even rejected in a variety of ways that influenced nuns' devotional lives, their relationships with patrons, and their cultural engagement and production. These essays cover the time period before and after the Council of Trent, permitting an analysis of convents' responses to changing power dynamics, both inside and outside the enclosure. The book also engages a broad geographical and cultural range, with chapters focusing on the centres of Florence, Venice, and Rome, the courts of Urbino, Ferrara, and Mantua, and smaller cities across Northern Italy, offering unprecedented insights into early modern Italian convent life and its varied forms and modes of expression.
Convent Networks in Early Modern Italy and Christianization Of The Anglo-saxons C.597-c.700
Christianization Of The Anglo-saxons C.597-c.700Convent Networks in Early Modern Italy
  • Author

    Marilyn Dunn

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brepols Publishers

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Weight

    727g

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.9 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9782503586076

  • ISBN-10

    2503586074

  • Eden Code

    5300213

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