Erscheint: August 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585-1794
Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages
Verlag:
Amsterdam University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35665452
EAN: 9789462986343
Erscheint: August 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 260.–
Beschreibung
This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the twentieth. Their members, called Beguines, played fundamental social and religious roles in their communities, and they also became major patrons of art and architecture, building vast complexes and filling them with paintings, sculptures, prints, textiles, and all sorts of other decorative objects. As the first comprehensive and primary source-driven account of Court Beguinage visual culture, this study explores the historical importance of these institutions and reveals how the Beguines used buildings and images to support devotional practice, shape public perception, raise funds, and negotiate power relationships during the Counter-Reformation. Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries. is intended for scholars and students of early modern history, art and architectural history, cultural history, religious history, and women's and gender studies.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Sarah Joan Moran
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 372