Women's Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany
eBook - PDF

Women's Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany

(1300-1600)

  1. 173 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Women's Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany

(1300-1600)

About this book

The women profiled in these chapters come from diverse cultural, social, economic and spiritual backgrounds: from patrician heads of household to widows, from saints to artistic patrons, each of the women featured in this interdisciplinary study offers us fresh insight and a broader perspective on the position and role of female protagonists in the history of early modern Tuscany. Employing a variety of methodological approaches, and aided by new archival material, this volume examines women's ordinary and extraordinary experiences through their writings, cultural and religious activities, social and political networks, and commercial endeavors. In so doing, the volume raises insightful questions about the scope of women's accomplishments and provides new direction for the future study of women's agency and self-fashioning.

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Information

Publisher
Viella Libreria Editrice
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9791254690529
Topic
History
Subtopic
Italian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Simona Lorenzini, Deborah Pellegrino, Introduction
  7. Jane Tylus, The Languages of Fashioning: Catherine of Siena and Bridget of Sweden
  8. Simona Lorenzini, A Flower in the Garden: Devotional Advice and Rhetorical Strategies in Brigida Baldinotti’s Letters
  9. Deborah Pellegrino, Widowhood and Devotion: The Ricordanze Spirituali of the Exemplary Ginevra Brancacci
  10. Elena Brizio, Family Affairs: How a Woman Cared for Her Casa and Its Honour in Cinquecento Siena
  11. Elsa Filosa, Lapa Acciaiuoli: A Business woman
  12. Bruce Edelstein, Bronzino’s Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with Her SonFrancesco: A New Public Image for the Duchess of Florence
  13. Daniela D’Eugenio, “In quella casa è poca pace dove gallina canta e gallo tace”: Women’s Agency in Early Modern Tuscan Proverbs
  14. Index of Names
  15. Contributors