Spatial Texts: Women as Devisers of Environments and Iconographies

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In early-modern Europe, it was not uncommon to use the symbolic languages of the late Renaissance and Baroque to create temporary or permanent decorated environments, either designed as places of meditation and withdrawal, or else as statements of the religious, philosophical or political position of an individual or community. Amongst these, there is a particularly interesting group made for and by early modern women in England, which demonstrate the degree to which women, sometimes as executants, sometimes as patrons or ‘devisers’, could create or commission complex adornments of spaces, cogent within current symbolic conventions and legible as verbal and visual texts.

Authors: Davidson, P

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Host title: A History of Early Modern Women's Writing
• Publication date: 2018-01-01
• Acceptance date: 2017-02-13