Convents And The Body Politic In Late Renaissance Venice 1550 1650
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Convents And The Body Politic In Late Renaissance Venice 1550 1650
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Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Convents And The Body Politic In Late Renaissance Venice 1550 1650 written by Jutta Gisela Sperling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Church and state categories.
Convents And The Body Politic In Late Renaissance Venice
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Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999
Convents And The Body Politic In Late Renaissance Venice written by Jutta Gisela Sperling and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, Jutta Gisela Sperling debunks this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Sperling explains how women were not allowed to marry beneath their social status while men could, especially if their brides were wealthy. Faced with a shortage of suitable partners, patrician women were forced to offer themselves as "a gift not only to God, but to their fatherland," as Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo told the Senate of Venice in 1619. Noting the declining birth rate among patrician women, Sperling explores the paradox of a marriage system that preserved the nobility at the price of its physical extinction. And on a more individual level, she tells the fascinating stories of these women. Some became scholars or advocates of women's rights, some took lovers, and others escaped only to survive as servants, prostitutes, or thieves.
Nuns Chronicles And Convent Culture In Renaissance And Counter Reformation Italy
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Author : K. J. P. Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-04
Nuns Chronicles And Convent Culture In Renaissance And Counter Reformation Italy written by K. J. P. Lowe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-04 with Art categories.
This well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. It uses a comparative methodology of 'connected differences' to examine the intellectual and imaginative achievement of these nuns, and to investigate how they fashioned and preserved individual and convent identities by writing chronicles. The chronicles themselves reveal many examples of nuns' agency, especially with regard to cultural creativity, and show that convent traditions determined cultural priorities and specialisms, and dictated the contours of convent ceremonial life.
Virgins Of Venice
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Author : Mary Laven
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2002
Virgins Of Venice written by Mary Laven and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Rich in intrigue and gossip, this book uncovers the long-hidden stories of the "virgins of Venice"--3,000 nuns, many of them immured against their will, in the city's 50 convents during the late Renaissance. 18 illustrations.
A Companion To Venetian History 1400 1797
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-07-11
A Companion To Venetian History 1400 1797 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with History categories.
The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D’Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson.
Convent Theatre In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Elissa B. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-04
Convent Theatre In Early Modern Italy written by Elissa B. Weaver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-04 with History categories.
This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors, actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan houses, the plays written and produced, and what these reveal about the lives of convent women, are the focus of this book. Beginning with the earliest known performances of miracle and mystery plays (sacre rappresentazioni) in the late fifteenth century, the book follows the development in the convents at the turn of the sixteenth century of spiritual comedy and of a variety of dramatic forms in the seventeenth century. Convent theatre both reflected the high level of literacy among convent women and contributed to it, and it attested to the continuing close contact between the secular world and the convents - even in the Post Tridentine period.
How Sex Got Screwed Up The Ghosts That Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure Book One
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Author : Jon Knowles
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2019-06-28
How Sex Got Screwed Up The Ghosts That Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure Book One written by Jon Knowles and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-28 with Social Science categories.
The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Book One of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Stone Age to the Enlightenment. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
Across The Religious Divide
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Author : Jutta Sperling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-10-16
Across The Religious Divide written by Jutta Sperling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-16 with History categories.
Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gender relations in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Through individual case studies based on urban and rural, elite and non-elite, religious and secular communities, Across the Religious Divide presents the only nuanced history of the region that incorporates peripheral areas such as Portugal, the Aegean Islands, Dalmatia, and Albania into the central narrative. By bridging the present-day notional and cultural divide between Muslim and Judeo-Christian worlds with geographical and thematic coherence, this collection of essays by top international scholars focuses on women in courts of law and sources such as notarial records, testaments, legal commentaries, and administrative records to offer the most advanced research and illuminate real connections across boundaries of gender, religion, and culture.
From Rome To Eternity Catholicism And The Arts In Italy Ca 1550 1650
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Author : Pamela M. Jones
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-10-01
From Rome To Eternity Catholicism And The Arts In Italy Ca 1550 1650 written by Pamela M. Jones and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with History categories.
This book treats Rome, the arts and religious culture in Italy in the century or so after the Council of Trent. In that era, clerical bureaucrats may have sought to impose control and uniformity, but nine original essays in this volume demonstrate continuing vitality of a wide range of creative artistic production. The book is illustrated with more than 50 reproductions. Part I and II explore themes of Italian Artists as Saints and Sinners, and Arts of Sanctity, Suffering, and Sensuality in Italy. Part III, Italy and Beyond: Rome and Global Catholic Culture, acknowledges world-wide dimensions of early modern Catholicism. From Rome to Eternity elucidates the rich and multifaceted character of Catholicism in Italy, ca. 1550-1650. Papal Rome spoke, but even as Italian Catholics listened, they themselves also spoke, and wrote, sang, acted, painted. Contributors include: Michael A. Zampelli, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Fiora A. Bassanese, Peter Burke, James Clifton, Sheldon Grossman, Pamela Jones, Robert L. Kendrick, David M. Stone, and Thomas Worcester.
Women Music
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Author : Karin Pendle
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-22
Women Music written by Karin Pendle and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-22 with History categories.
The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium). This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.