Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

ISBN-13: 9781107002944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 292 str.

Philip Gavitt

Opis

This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence.

Recenzje

'Gavitt provides stimulating insight into crucial issues that although long debated in the historiography of Renaissance Florence have been only sporadically addressed for the history of the city in the sixteenth century.' The American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Charity and state-building; 2. Gender, lineage ideology, and the development of a status culture; 3. Law and the majesty of practice; 4. Innocence and danger: pedagogy, discipline, and the culture of masculinity; 5. From putte to puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions; 6. Unruly nuns: convents and cloistering; Conclusion.