A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy

by Julia Rombough

An illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women's residential institutions, and how the noises of city life--both within and beyond their walls--defied such regulation.

Amid the Catholic reforms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the number of women and girls housed in nunneries, reformatories, and charity homes grew rapidly throughout the city of Florence. Julia Rombough follows the efforts of legal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674295811
• ISBN13: 9780674295810
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"