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Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

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Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian ConventsForm 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 modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling simply to save their parents the expense of their dowry these

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 modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm.
Often locked in convents without any religious calling simply to save their parents the expense of their dowry these involuntary nuns relied on the symbolic meaning of secular clothes, fabrics, and colors to rebel against the rules and prescriptions of conventual life and to define roles and social status inside monastic society.
Calling upon mountains of archival documents, most of which have never been seen in print, "Forbidden Fashions" is the first book to focus specifically upon the dress of nuns in Venetian convents and offers new perspective on the intersection of dress and the city s social and economic history.
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 01/15/2014
ISBN: 9780896728295
Pages: 227
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 6.41w x 0.92d

Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 691
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