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

Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent''s place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later. In the intervening time, women within...