George W McClure

Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By tapping into the records and cultural artifacts of these games, George McClure recovers a realm of female fame that has largely escaped the notice of modern historians, and in so doing, reveals a cohort of spirited, intellectual women outside of the courts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781442646599
• ISBN-10: 1442646594
• Artikelnr.: 36955208

Autorenporträt

George McClure is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Preface
Chapter 1: The Renaissance Theory of Play
Chapter 2: The Academy of the Intronati and Sienese Women (1525-1555)
Chapter 3: The Games of Girolamo and Scipione Bargagli (1563-1569)
Chapter 4:  Fortunes, Medals, Emblems: The Public Face of Private Women
Chapter 5:  The Birth of the Assicurate: Italy’s First Female Academy
(1654-1704)
Chapter 6:  Girolamo Gigli: The Legacy of the Sienese Games and Sienese
Women
Conclusion
Bibliography