"In this innovative and engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. Venarde deftly interweaves narrative and statistical data to describe in broad hi…
"In this innovative and engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. Venarde deftly interweaves narrative and statistical data to describe in broad hi…
"In this innovative and engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. Venarde deftly interweaves narrative and statistical data to describe in broad hi…
"In this innovative and engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. Venarde deftly interweaves narrative and statistical data to describe in broad hi…
An in-depth study of Louis Kahn's unbuilt masterpiece, this book provides a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space.
An in-depth study of Louis Kahn's unbuilt masterpiece, this book provides a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space.
This volume is devoted to the early history of the Uetersen nunnery in southwest Holstein. It examines the foundation of the cloister and the first 70 years of its history, taking into consideration prosopography, order history, and territorial, memorial, and economic aspects. I…
This volume is devoted to the early history of the Uetersen nunnery in southwest Holstein. It examines the foundation of the cloister and the first 70 years of its history, taking into consideration prosopography, order history, and territorial, memorial, and economic aspects. I…
"Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early mode…
"Focuses on the dress of nuns in early modern Venetian Convents; investigates the intersection of dress and the city's social and economic history: includes illustrations"--