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tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Monson, Craig A.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- Z. EUR 8 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- religieuzen, religieuze gemeenschappen, dagelijks leven, priesters, muziek, kunsten, seksualiteit, Italië, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw
- Description
- .Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. In this book forgotten tales are restored to life. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical assault and sexual impropriety (some real, some imagined). Others were only guilty of misjudgment or defacing valuable artwork that offended their sensibilities. But what unites the women and their stories is the challenges they faced: these were women trying to find their way within the Catholicism of their day and through the strict limits it imposed on them. Monson introduces us to women who were occasionally desperate to flee cloistered life, as when an entire community conspired to torch their convent and be set free. But more often, he shows us nuns just trying to live their lives. When they were crossed—by powerful priests who claimed to know what was best for them—bad behavior could escalate from mere troublemaking to open confrontation.
music, identity and meaning
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Foreman, Kelly
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- kunsten, seksualiteit, muziek, identiteit, Japan
- Description
- The book opens by deconstructing the idea of 'geisha' as it functions in Western societies in order to understand why gei has been, and continues to be, neglected in geisha studies. Subsequent chapters detail the myriad musical genres and traditions with which geisha have been involved during their artistic history, as well as their position within the traditional arts society. Considering the current situation more closely, the final chapters explore actual dedication to art today by geisha, and analyse how they create impromptu performances at evening banquets. An important issue here is geisha-patron artistic collaboration, which leads to consideration of what Foreman argues to be the unique and essential nexus of identity, eroticism and aesthetics within the geisha world.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Poska, Allyson M. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Couchman, Jane > (ed.)
- Creator
- McIver, Katherine A. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 1C 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- religie, religieuze gemeenschappen, muziek, moederschap, patriarchaat, huwelijken, seksualiteit, geleerde vrouwen, kunstenaressen, economie, handel, dagelijks leven, vrouwbeelden, vroegmoderne periode, bundel
- Description
- This volume presents a review of current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women's lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The companion not only offers an examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.
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