Agency, visuality and society at the Chartreuse de Champmol.

9780754660460

Agency, visuality and society at the Chartreuse de Champmol.

Lindquist, Sherry C. M.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2008

251 pages

$114.95

Hardcover

N7949

An American scholar of visual art in late medieval and early modern Europe, Lindquist explains how the art and architecture of a particular Carthusian monastery charterhouse in Dijon, France served to define and enforce the social categories of male and female, lay and religious, and public and private. One of her themes is how conflicts surrounding such categories during the late Middle Ages still arise in monasteries today.

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