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Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600�1800

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Blending history, architecture and literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. After the Council of Trent imposed strict claustral enclosure, the nun became an intensified object of desire in male-authored narratives. Convents also inspired "feminutopian" discourses by women writers. R

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octobre 2024, 362 Pages, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-1-032-92114-3

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