Barbara Woshinsky
Ashgate
Hardback
300
Examining the representation of women's conventual spaces in seventeenth and eighteenth France this book works within a multi-disciplinary framework of post-Tridentine literature religious thought architecture and history. The author defines conventual space as a real and a symbolic enclosure?a structure encompassing and expressing the religious political and social powers that affect women's lives women's responses to these forces and their active role in recreating their own surroundings.
Ashgate
Hardback
300
Examining the representation of women's conventual spaces in seventeenth and eighteenth France this book works within a multi-disciplinary framework of post-Tridentine literature religious thought architecture and history. The author defines conventual space as a real and a symbolic enclosure?a structure encompassing and expressing the religious political and social powers that affect women's lives women's responses to these forces and their active role in recreating their own surroundings.