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Jutta Gisela Sperling

Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice

434 pages, 25 halftones, 14 tables  6 x 9  © 1999
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Cloth $91.00

ISBN: 9780226769356   Published March 2000

Paper $31.00

ISBN: 9780226769363   Published March 2000

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Potlatch alla Veneziana: Coerced Monachizations in the Context of Patrician Intermarriage and Conspicuous Consumption
2. Marvelous Venice: A Virgin City and Its Noble Body Politic
3. The Theology and Politics of Clausura
4. The Economic Dimensions of the Convent-Reform Program
5. Convents and the Question of State Sovereignty
Conclusion
Appendix
Awards
  • Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
  • SIHS/Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prizes in Italian Hist
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