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List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Potlatch alla Veneziana: Coerced Monachizations in the Context of Patrician Intermarriage and Conspicuous Consumption
2. Marvelous Venice: A Virgin City and Its Noble Body Politic
3. The Theology and Politics of Clausura
4. The Economic Dimensions of the Convent-Reform Program
5. Convents and the Question of State Sovereignty
Conclusion
Appendix
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Christian Brook
reviewed Convents and Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice on February 02, 2010
Convents and Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
Really fascinating book about Santa Maria delle Vergini. Argues that aristocratic convents were the primary sites for the battles waged between Venetian authorities and the post-Tridentine church for control of religious life in general, and of women's religious experience in particular. The first chapter is by far the most interesting, arguing that the exceptionally high rate of forced monachization among aristocratic women was not entirely due to the impracticability of the extortionate dowry market (as has been previously argued) but was rather was a form of potlatch, in which women were forced into convents in recognition of their exceptionally high value as pieces of aristocratic culture for which there could be no acceptable return. The practice of forced monachization was thus a form of conspicuous wastefulness, where the commodity being wasted was female reproductive capacity, with the result that the so-called gift-giver increased in social standing because of such flagrant wastefulness.
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