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Author : Philip Gavitt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Abandoned children
ISBN : 0472101838
A study in the ideology of wealth and poverty
Author : Philip Richard Gavitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848576700
Author : Philip Gavitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1139078321
This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.
Author : Philip Gavitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781107002944
This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve.
Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421429335
In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity. Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the "fathers" of society, these cast-off children presented a very immediate challenge and opportunity. In Bologna and Florence, government and private institutions pioneered orphanages to care for the growing number of homeless children. Nicholas Terpstra discusses the founding and management of these institutions, the procedures for placing children into them, the children's daily routine and education, and finally their departure from these homes. He explores the role of the city-state and considers why Bologna and Florence took different paths in operating the orphanages. Terpstra finds that Bologna's orphanages were better run, looked after the children more effectively, and were more successful in returning their wards to society as productive members of the city's economy. Florence's orphanages were larger and harsher, and made little attempt to reintegrate children into society. Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.
Author : Thomas Kuehn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0472112449
An investigation of the complex social and legal issues surrounding illegitimate offspring in Renaissance Florence
Author : DianaBullen Presciutti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351537490
The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public?s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the discursive processes through which foundling care was identified, conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of foundlings.
Author : Jennifer Cochran Anderson,Douglas N. Dow
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004447776
A team of specialists addresses a foundational concept as central to early modern thinking as to our own: that the past is always an important part of the present.
Author : Corey Tazzara,Paula Findlen,Jacob Soll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000711707
Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time to revisit the Tuscan Enlightenment. This volume brings together an international group of scholars with the goal of putting to rest the idea that Florence ceased to be interesting after the Renaissance. Indeed, it is partly the explicit dialogue between Renaissance and Enlightenment that makes eighteenth-century Tuscany so interesting. This enlightened age looked to the past. It began the Herculean project of collecting, editing, and publishing many of the manuscripts that today form the bedrock of any serious study of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vasari, Galileo, and other Tuscan writers. This was an age of public libraries, projects of cultural restoration, and the emergence of the Uffizi as a public art gallery, complemented by a science museum in Peter Leopold’s reign whose relics can still be visited in the Museo Galileo and La Specola.
Author : Hugh Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868040
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, taking in Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud, revealing considerable differences in the way western societites have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief throughout the period, concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children and adults across these five centuries. For undergraduate courses in History of the Family, European Social History, History of Children and Gender History.
Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1648 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664455
First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317098119
The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and point to the need for further study, in particular in the realm of lactation imagery in the visual arts. This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies. Proposing a variety of different methods and analytical frameworks within which to consider instances of lactation imagery, breastfeeding practices, and their textual references, this volume also offers tools to support further research on the topic.
Author : Thomas Max Safley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0391042114
Spiritual ideals in early modern Europe shaped political and social poor relief structures just as much as rationalization and effective administration colored ecclesiastical charity efforts. Thomas Max Safley examines the roles of the community in responding to poverty, whatever the context: religious, political, or private (the elite).
Author : Thomas Max Safley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004618725
This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.
Author : Fellow at King's College Cambridge and Teaches Classics John Henderson,John Henderson,Reader in Latin Literature Cambridge University and Fellow John Henderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300109954
John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, recreating the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and those who administered treatment there.
