Contents: Introduction: Theorizing the relationships between architecture and gender in early modern Europe, Helen Hills; Production: architects and patrons: A noble residence for a female regent: Margaret of Austria and the construction of the 'Court of Savoy' in Mechelen, Dagmar Eichberger; The Val-de-Grâce as a portrait of Anne of Austria: Queen, Queen Regent, Queen Mother, Jennifer G. Germann; The architecture of institutionalism: women's space in renaissance hospitals, Eunice D. Howe; Women and the practice of architecture in 18th-century France, Tanis Hinchcliffe; Practice and Resistance: 'Repaired by me to my exceeding great cost and charges': Anne Clifford and the uses of architecture, Elizabeth V. Chew; 'Women in wolves' mouths': nun's reputations, enclosure and architecture at the convent of the Le Murate in Florence, Saundra Weddle; Spatial discipline and its limits: nuns and the built environment in early modern Spain, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt; Spaces shaped for spiritual perfection: convent architecture and nuns in early modern Rome, Marilyn Dunn; Women in the charterhouse: the liminality of cloistered spaces at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon, Sherry C. M. Lindquist; Select Bibliography, Index.
Helen Hills is a Professor in the Department of History of Art, University of York. She is also the author if Invisible City: The Architecture of Aristocratic Convents in Baroque Naples (OUP, 2002). Helen Hills, Dagmar Eichberger, Jennifer G. Germann, Eunice D. Howe, Tanis Hinchcliffe, Elizabeth V. Chew, Saundra Weddle, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Marilyn Dunn, Sherry C. M. Lindquist.
'A significant collection that sheds light on both well-known and less-familiar patrons, monuments, and practitioners, while highlighting issues to do with masculinities, femininities and the built environment in early modern Europe.' Sheila ffolliott, Professor of Art History, George Mason University, USA ’... an important contribution to the study of gender and space in early modern Europe.’ Urban History
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