Philip Gavitt

Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781107002944
• ISBN-10: 110700294X
• Artikelnr.: 32694703

Autorenporträt

Philip Gavitt is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Saint Louis University and the founder of its Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. A recipient of several fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays Program, from the ACLS and from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and both a former Fellow and visiting professor at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), he is the author of Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Charity and state-building
2. Gender, lineage ideology, and the development of a status culture
3. Law and the majesty of practice
4. Innocence and danger: pedagogy, discipline, and the culture of masculinity
5. From putte to puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions
6. Unruly nuns: convents and cloistering
Conclusion.