Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy Offering an in-depth synthesis of recent scholarship in the field, this book presents a reconstruction of the Renaissance in Italy as both a social and a…
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Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
Offering an in-depth synthesis of recent scholarship in the field, this book presents a reconstruction of the Renaissance in Italy as both a social and a gendered experience. Introductory and concluding chapters on the historiography of Italian social and gender history draw these specific studies Successive chapters explore this theme in the context of work, law, politics, and notion of the state; and as expressed in Renaissance concepts of honour, representational art, medicine and magic, sexual practices, religious organization and spirituality.