Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

by Isabella Campagnol

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896728293
• ISBN13: 9780896728295
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.3"