Women In Italian Renaissance Culture And Society

Author : Letizia Panizza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351199056

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Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society by Letizia Panizza Pdf

"An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense. Many contributions are the result of first-hand archival research and are illustrated with numerous unpublished or little-known reproductions or original material. The subjects include: women and the court ( Dilwyn Knox, Evelyn S Welch, Francine Daenens and Diego Zancani ); women and the church ( Gabriella Zarri, Victoria Primhak, Kate Lowe, Francesca Medioli and Ruth Chavasse ); legal constraints and ethical precepts ( Marina Graziosi, Christine Meek, Brian Richardson, Jane Bridgeman and Daniela De Bellis ); female models of comportment ( Marta Ajmarm Paola Tinagli and Sara F Matthews Grieco ); women and the stage ( Richard Andrews, Maggie Guensbergberg, Rosemary E Bancroft-Marcus ); women and letters ( Diana Robin, Virginia Cox, Pamela J Benson, Judy Rawson, Conor Fahy, Giovanni Aquilecchia, Adriana Chemello, Giovanna Rabitti and Nadia Cannata Salamone )."

Author : Letizia Panizza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : OCLC:1409468494

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Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society by Letizia Panizza Pdf

Author : Judith C. Brown,Robert C. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Paola Tinagli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 071904054X

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Women in Italian Renaissance Art by Paola Tinagli Pdf

This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.

Author : Marilyn Migiel,Juliana Schiesari
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 080149771X

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Refiguring Woman by Marilyn Migiel,Juliana Schiesari Pdf

Refiguring Woman reassesses the significance of gender in what has been considered the bastion of gender-neutral humanist thought, the Italian Renaissance. It brings together eleven new essays that investigate key topics concerning the hermeneutics and political economy of gender and the relationship between gender and the Renaissance canon. Taken together, they call into question a host of assumptions about the period, revealing the implicit and explicit misogyny underlying many Renaissance social and discursive practices.

Author : Mary Rogers,Paola Tinagli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073934658

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Women in Italy, 1350-1650 by Mary Rogers,Paola Tinagli Pdf

Between c.1350 and c.1650, Italian urban societies saw much debate on women's nature, roles, education, and behavior. Using a broad range of material, most newly translated, this book illuminates the ideals and realities informing the lives of women within the context of civic and courtly culture in Renaissance Italy. The text is divided into three sections: contemporary views on the nature of women, and ethical and aesthetic ideals seen as suitable to them; life cycles from birth to death, punctuated by the rites of passage of betrothal, marriage and widowhood; women's roles in the convent, the court, the workplace, and in cultural life.

Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226436166

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Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King Pdf

In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.

Author : Letizia Panizza,Sharon Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521578132

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A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza,Sharon Wood Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Italy.

Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949643

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Humanism, Venice, and Women by Margaret L. King Pdf

Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L. King's distinct but interlocking scholarly interests: humanism and Venice; women and humanism; and women of the Italian Renaissance. The first part focuses on defining the key characteristics of Venetian as opposed to other Italian humanisms, with an analysis of Gramscian theory about the historical role of intellectuals as an aid to understanding humanism in Venice, followed by essays on three Venetian humanists who wrote about family relationships (or the need to avoid them). The third section introduces the major Renaissance women humanists and analyzes the relation of their work to that of male humanists, along with an essay on Renaissance mothers of sons, in Italy and beyond. Crossing boundaries of region and gender, and the subdisciplines of intellectual and social history, these essays are provocative in themselves while demonstrating how shifting historiographical contexts encourage scholars to view the historical record in new and fruitful ways.

Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857727756

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A Short History of the Italian Renaissance by Virginia Cox Pdf

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In her elegant new introduction, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in European cultural history, when - between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries - Italy led the world in painting, building, science and literature. Her book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, but also histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy. Alongside towering figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Petrarch, Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, Cox reveals a cast of lesser-known protagonists including printers, travel writers, actresses, courtesans, explorers, inventors and even celebrity chefs. At the same time, Italy's rich regional diversity is emphasised; in addition to the great artistic capitals of Florence, Rome and Venice, smaller but cutting-edge centres such as Ferrara, Mantua, Bologna, Urbino and Siena are given their due. As the author demonstrates, women played a far more prominent role in this exhilarating resurgence than was recognized until very recently - both as patrons of art and literature and as creative artists themselves. 'Renaissance woman', she boldly argues, is as important a legacy as 'Renaissance man'.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521778220

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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E. Wiesner Pdf

This is a major new textbook, designed for students in all disciplines seeking an introduction to the very latest research on all aspects of women's lives in Europe from 1500 to 1750, and on the development of the notions of masculinity and femininity. The coverage is geographically broad, ranging from Spain to Scandinavia, and from Russia to Ireland, and the topics investigated include the female life-cycle, literacy, women's economic role, sexuality, artistic creations, female piety - and witchcraft - and the relationship between gender and power. To aid students each chapter contains extensive notes on further reading (but few footnotes), and the approach throughout is designed to render the subject in as accessible and stimulating manner as possible. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe is suitable for usage on numerous courses in women's history, early modern European history, and comparative history.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003813897

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Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray Pdf

• This book offers an engaging, well-researched introduction to the influential female figures who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance culture, making it easy for educators to integrate women’s history into the study of the past and for the general reader to gain a reliable, richly detailed overview. • Each chapter functions as a stand-alone study, combining an engaging narrative biography with an expert grasp of the cultural, political, and artistic context of this historical period to allow students and lecturers to either use parts or the whole of this book to support their studies and teaching. • Taken as a whole, students will be shown that these women were not isolated cases of female exceptionality, but rather a part of a larger and more complex tapestry of Renaissance achievement, one that connects them to one another as well as to the male writers, artists, and leaders whose names many readers will already know. • Interwoven within each chapter are primary sources (letters, poems, sketches) and portraits of each of the women discussed, providing students with a fuller picture of these women.

Author : Daniel Bornstein,Roberto Rusconi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226066371

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Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Daniel Bornstein,Roberto Rusconi Pdf

Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited, and ideologically disdained, women's active participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms. These essays explore the involvement of women in religious life throughout northern and central Italy and trace the evolution of communities of pious women as they tried to achieve their devotional goals despite the strictures of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The contributors examine relations between holy women, their devout followers, and society at large. Including contributions from leading figures in a new generation of Italian historians of religion, this book shows how women were able to carve out broad areas of influence by carefully exploiting the institutional church and by astutely manipulating religious percepts.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 077272038X

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Florence and Beyond by John M. Najemy Pdf

This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Judith C Brown,Judith C. Brown,Robert Charles Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 058229326X

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