Sex Gender And Sexuality In Renaissance Italy

Author : Jacqueline Murray,Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351008709

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Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy by Jacqueline Murray,Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and visual sources to examine themes such as gender identities and dynamics, sexual transgression and sexual identities in leading Renaissance cities. It is divided into three sections, which work together to provide an overview of the influence of sex and gender in all aspects of Renaissance society from politics and religion to literature and art. Part I: Sex, Order, and Disorder deals with issues of law, religion, and violence in marital relationships; Part II: Sense and Sensuality in Sex and Gender considers gender in relation to the senses and emotions; and Part III: Visualizing Sexuality in Word and Image investigates gender, sexuality, and erotica in art and literature. Bringing to life this increasingly prominent area of historical study, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy is ideal for students of Renaissance Italy and early modern gender and sexuality.

Author : Judith C. Brown,Robert C. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317886587

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Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown,Robert C. Davis Pdf

This major new collection of essays by leading scholars of Renaissance Italy transforms many of our existing notions about Renaissance politics, economy, social life, religion, medicine, and art. All the essays are founded on original archival research and examine questions within a wide chronological and geographical framework - in fact the pan-Italian scope of the volume is one of the volume's many attractions.Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy provides a broad, comprehensive perspective on the central role that gender concepts played in Italian Renaissance society.

Author : Patricia Simons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Civilization, Baroque
ISBN : 0909952140

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Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Italy by Patricia Simons Pdf

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351549035

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Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy by Allison Levy Pdf

Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects and painted ceramic jars. In this way, the volume presents an entirely new picture of Renaissance sexuality, stripping away layers of misconceptions and manipulations to reveal an often-misunderstood world. 'Sex acts' is interpreted broadly, from the acting out, or performing, of one's (or another's) sex to sexual activity, including what might be considered, now or then, peculiar practices and preferences and a variety of possibly scandalous scenarios. While the contributors come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection foregrounds the visual culture of early modern sexuality, from representations of sex and sexualized bodies to material objects associated with sexual activities. The picture presented here nuances our understanding of Renaissance sexuality as well as our own.

Author : Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801885167

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Machiavelli in Love by Guido Ruggiero Pdf

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Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801853095

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Women in the Streets by Samuel Kline Cohn Pdf

Ultimately, Cohn argues, women are the protagonists of this book, whether the issue is their support of other women or the resolution of conflict in the streets of Florence, the control of their own dowries or the salvation of their own souls.

Author : Patricia Simons,Power Institute of Fine Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Italy
ISBN : OCLC:34614240

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Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Italy by Patricia Simons,Power Institute of Fine Arts Pdf

Author : Laura Giannetti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099518

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Lelia's Kiss by Laura Giannetti Pdf

In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.

Author : Patricia Simons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107004917

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The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe by Patricia Simons Pdf

A richly textured cultural history that investigates the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment.

Author : Péter Bokody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009302302

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The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy by Péter Bokody Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of images of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Péter Bokody examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing produced in kingdoms (Sicily and Naples) and city-republics (Florence, Siena, Lucca, Bologna and Padua). Whilst misogynistic endorsement characterized many of these visual discourses, some urban communities condemned rape in their propaganda against tyranny. Such representations of rape often link gender and aggression to war, abduction, sodomy, prostitution, pregnancy, and suicide. Bokody also traces how the new naturalism in painting, introduced by Giotto, increased verisimilitude, but also fostered imagery that coupled eroticism and violation. Exploring images and texts that have long been overlooked, Bokody's study provides new insights at the intersection of gender, policy, and visual culture, with evident relevance to our contemporary condition.

Author : James Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521446058

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Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe by James Turner Pdf

An exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art, literature, and society.

Author : Katherine Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769891

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The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance by Katherine Crawford Pdf

An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.

Author : Lloyd Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317945086

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Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance by Lloyd Davis Pdf

First published in 1998. This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. Combining complete texts and extracts-many hitherto unavailable in modern editions-the collection focuses on prevailing conceptions of sexuality and gender in major areas and institutions of Tudor and Stuart society. A broad selection of religious sermons, moral handbooks, household manuals, midwifery and legal textbooks, ballads and chapbooks has been chosen.

Author : Michael Rocke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195352689

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Forbidden Friendships by Michael Rocke Pdf

"This is a superb work of scholarship, impossible to overpraise.... It marks a milestone in the 20-year rise of gay and lesbian studies."--Martin Duberman, The Advocate The men of Renaissance Florence were so renowned for sodomy that "Florenzer" in German meant "sodomite." In the late fifteenth century, as many as one in two Florentine men had come to the attention of the authorities for sodomy by the time they were thirty. In 1432 The Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Indeed, nearly all Florentine males probably had some kind of same-sex experience as a part of their "normal" sexual life. Seventy years of denunciations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which author Michael Rocke has used in his vivid depiction of this vibrant sexual culture in a world where these same-sex acts were not the deviant transgressions of a small minority, but an integral part of a normal masculine identity. Rocke roots this sexual activity in the broader context of Renaissance Florence, with its social networks of families, juvenile gangs, neighbors, patronage, workshops, and confraternities, and its busy political life from the early years of the Republic through the period of Lorenzo de' Medici, Savonarola, and the beginning of Medici princely rule. His richly detailed book paints a fascinating picture of Renaissance Florence and calls into question our modern conceptions of gender and sexual identity.

Author : Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780195056969

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The Boundaries of Eros by Guido Ruggiero Pdf

Using the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, providing insight into Venetian society and, ultimately, the Renaissance itself.