Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy

ISBN-13: 9780582293267 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 268 str.

Judith C. Brown; Robert C. Davis

Opis

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. 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. Introductory and concluding chapters on the historiography of Italian social and gender history draw these specific studies together.

Spis treści

Introduction.  PART ONE: The geography of gender in the Renaissance.  2. Gender and the rites of honour.   PART TWO: The social foundations of gender in Renaissance Italy.  3. Daughters and oligarchs: Gender and the early Renaissance state.  4. Person and gender in the laws.  5. Women and work in Renaissance Italy.  PART THREE: The social body.  6. Medicine and magic: the healing arts.  7. Gender and religious institutions.  PART FOUR: The Renaissance of the spirit.  8. Spiritual kinship.  9. Gender, religious institutions and social discipline: the reform of the regulars.  10. Gender and religious representation.  Suggested further readings.  Index.

O autorze

Judith C. Brown, Robert C. Davis