Download or read book Invisible City written by Helen Hills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude. Even today, Neapolitan convents figure prominently in the city's fabric. In analyzing the architecture of these august institutions, Helen Hills skillfully reads conventual architecture as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic virgin nun, mapping out the dialectic between flesh and stone.
Download or read book Constitutioni delle monache della Prima Regola di S Chiara written by Clarisse and published by . This book was released on 1611 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Italian Books in the British Library written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library (London) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy written by Brian Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Download or read book Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor 1 Celano 22 Essays in Honor of Michael W Blastic O F M on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays honors Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on his 70th birthday. The contributors address issues within academic areas in which he has taught and published: the Writings of Francis; Franciscan history, hagiography and spirituality; medieval women; and Franciscan theology and philosophy.
Download or read book Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy c 1200 c 1450 written by Frances Andrews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major new study of secular-religious boundaries and the role of the clergy in the administration of Italy's late medieval city-states.
Download or read book Lords of Romagna written by John Larner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1965-06-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Popes Their Church and State and Especially of Their Conflicts with Protestantism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dalmatia between Ottoman and Venetian Rule written by Tea Mayhew and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2013-11-27T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of the crucial events that took place during the passage from the Ottoman to the Venetian rules in the Dalmatian hinterland during the Candian and Morean Wars in the second half of the 17th century. The hinterland of the capital city of the Venetian dual province of Dalmatia and Albania – the city of Zadar/Zara – has been used here as a case study to depict all the changes relating to: inhabitation, the appearance of settlements, changes in the populations and migrations, the forms and models of administrative and political institutions, specific border economies and the development of Venetian border areas through trade with the Ottomans alongside agriculture in the contado. Studied here is how the city of Zadar, whose life was organised as a typical coastal community like many in the Venetian Republic along with its contado, managed to enlarge its territory and incorporate elements of Ottoman political, administrative and cultural heritage along with thousands of Ottoman Christian subjects.
Download or read book Between Exaltation and Infamy written by Stephen Haliczer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.
Download or read book Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes written by Vincent Ilardi and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. "By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western and central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today." Eyeglasses served an important technological function at both the intellectual and practical level, not only easing the textual studies of scholars but also easing the work of craftsmen/small bus. During the 15th cent. two crucial developments occurred: the ability to grind convex lenses for various levels of presbyopia and the ability to grind concave lenses for the correction of myopia. As a result, eyeglasses could be made almost to prescription by the early 17th cent. Illus.
Download or read book Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caught between the Theatricality of the Baroque and the acute sensibility of Romanticism, art in Rome in the eighteenth century has long been a neglected area of study." "The grand scale and spectacular diversity of the period are comprehensively captured for the first time in this definitive history of the period, produced to accompany a major U.S. exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documenting the work of over 150 artists. With over 450 illustrations, and texts by an outstanding array of experts from around the world, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century provides a massively authoritative survey of a fascinating era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond written by James Mixson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.
