A Veil of Silence. Women and Sound in Renaissance Italy, Hardback

Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women’s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was tied to ideals of feminine purity and spiritual discipline, yet enclosed women still laughed, shouted, sang, and conversed. A Veil of Silence offers a revealing history of the political and spiritual meanings of the senses.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Author(s): Julia Rombough
• Illustration(s): 4 Maps
• Number of pages: 256
• Collection: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Publication date: 2024
• Dimensions: 165 x 243 x 26
• Cover type: Hardback