Helen Hills: 4 books

More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate target of attempts, by Catholic missionaries and others, to ’civilize’ the city. Historiographically bypassed in favour of Venice, Florence and Rome,...

Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured,...

Ada Palmer     -     Interview Stories Robert Gordon     _     Aeaea Helen Jackson     _     Do Not Pass GO Anton Rose     _     Jammers J S Richardson     _     Paradise Bird W G White  _     Sand and Rust  Elva Hills     _     Sleeping Fire Duncan...