Agnolo Firenzuola Konrad Eisenbichler Jacqueline Murray
First published in 1548, "On the Beauty of Women" purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a composite picture of perfect beauty by combining the beautiful features of women they know. The standards of beauty established in the garden give way to the artistic, creative imagination of the human spirit, and the group's movement from garden to hall seems to echo the dialogue's...
First published in 1548, "On the Beauty of Women" purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the u...
Conflicting Identities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the 15th century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross-section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity and male sexuality. How...
Conflicting Identities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the 15th century, crossin...
