Convent

structures to examine the precedent, she is especially interested in Santa Chiara in Naples and why it is different from other Clarissan convents. She argues that as it became more important for women to be able to view the liturgy, specifically the Eucharist, it was necessary to move the choir for sisters to enhance their access to it. She discusses how convent architecture was often designed in a way to enclose and seclude the sisters from not only the laity, but also the male clergy. Thus,…

When he became bedridden, his people completed his not done work, careful to preserve his signature style.By 1455, Donatello had came back to Florence and completed Magdalene Penitent, a statue of a gaunt-looking Mary Magdalene. Commissioned by the convent at Santa Maria di Cestello, the work was probably intended to provide…

Victor Hugo: Romanticism in France Born in France, in 1802 to Joseph Leopold Sigisbord Hugo and Sophie Trebuchet, Victor Hugo was the third and last son of his parents. Despite the fact that their family was of the working class, his mother was an unwavering monarchist and she raised her sons to be of the same mind. However, it was only a matter of time until Victor would change his perspective and become a representative for the common people. His political career blossomed in his later years,…

Chris does not take help from the people he met, he does not want to take things they try to offer, but there is one thing that Chris was given his care and support to them. Other people will take advantage, to make their lives easier, but Chris is different than others. He tries to earn the things he needs for his journey, and bring what's really worth to him. Chris was planning to get some money for his Alaska trip, but Franz offers money so that he does not do it. Chris didn’t like it “No…

While in the Army she meets her brother and they become close, but after a fight over a woman she is forced to leave. Catalina begins to make a name for herself for her skill in battle (and out of battle). She eventually unknowingly kills her brother in a duel and runs away. Catalina then runs into more trouble with the law for murders she did and did not commit. Eventually she confesses everything to a bishop who saves her life. She then spends some time in a nunnery until she is allowed to…

women. During the Middle Ages females had little rights. The church taught that they were beneath men and while they could inherit land form their husbands and fight to protect their lands when the men were away, their average day life was spent in a convent or doing homely activities. Peasant women were laborers and family caretakers. Now the upper class women gained a better education and were expected to know the classics as well as have charm, although they still had very little power in…

Gender roles have been around us for so long that people have forgotten how life would even be like with no classifications. Life as we know it would cease to exist if male and female humans were honestly all treated the same. The reason for this is simple and very direct, humans although want equality demonstrate the complete opposite. There is media now in day that include, books, novels, movies, theater performances, and so much more that reflect how poorly and how little todays society…

The very beginning of Their Eyes Were Watching God is a powerful statement which signifies the control that women have over their dreams and fantasies. More importantly, it empowers women by stating that they have the capability to act accordingly and make those dreams come true, whereas men have their fantasies “mocked to death by Time” (1). The importance of this quote relies on its foreshadowing of Janie’s constant, passionate struggle to have her most desired fantasy fulfilled – a fantasy of…

carry out the full penalty allowed by the law to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. “To death, or to a vow of single life.”(Shakespeare,15) These are the penalties included in the law that would force her to choose between death or to enter into a convent.. “Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke, This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child”(Shakespeare,9). Egeus would rather force Hermia to marry Demetrius who…

"Aurelia's Gifts" is inspired by "Pixie Picket." Pixie Picket takes place after a hostile takeover of the throne of England. Randolph Rowle was in charge of smothering the princes in the tower. He used and abused his wife, Bridget. She gave him seven children, but none lived more than a year; their deaths were suspicious. Bridget was happy when Randolph left to lead the war, although he left her no food or money. The night he left, Bridget heard moaning outside. She thought it was a hungry…