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Author : Craig Hugh Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Florence and Milan: Monasteri femminili milanesi tra medioeve e età moderna written by Craig Hugh Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elissa B. Weaver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521550826
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy written by Elissa B. Weaver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of convent theatre in Italy, an all-female tradition. Widespread in the early modern period, but virtually forgotten today, this activity produced a number of talented dramatists and works worthy of remembrance. Convent authors, actresses and audiences, especially in Tuscan houses, the plays written and produced, and what these reveal about the lives of convent women, are the focus of this book. Beginning with the earliest known performances of miracle and mystery plays (sacre rappresentazioni) in the late fifteenth century, the book follows the development in the convents at the turn of the sixteenth century of spiritual comedy and of a variety of dramatic forms in the seventeenth century. Convent theatre both reflected the high level of literacy among convent women and contributed to it, and it attested to the continuing close contact between the secular world and the convents - even in the Post Tridentine period.
Author : Tamar Herzig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226329151
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Savonarola's Women written by Tamar Herzig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), the religious reformer, preacher, and Florentine civic leader, was burned at the stake as a false prophet by the order of Pope Alexander VI. Tamar Herzig here explores the networks of Savonarola’s female followers that proliferated in the two generations following his death. Drawing on sources from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many never before studied, transcribed, or contextualized in Savonarolan scholarship and religious history, Herzig shows how powerful public figures and clerics continued to ally themselves with these holy women long after the prophet’s death. In their quest to stay true to their leader’s teachings, Savonarola’s female followers faced hostile superiors within their orders, local political pressures, and the deep-rooted misogynistic assumptions of the Church establishment. This unprecedented volume demonstrates how reform circles throughout the Italian peninsula each tailored Savonarola’s life and works to their particular communities’ regionally specific needs. Savonarola’s Women is an important reconstruction of women’s influence on one of the most important and controversial religious movements in premodern Europe.
Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853098
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Women in the Streets written by Samuel Kline Cohn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-12-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Giancarlo Andenna
Publisher : Vita e Pensiero
ISBN 13 : 9788834307540
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Dove va la storiografia monastica in Europa? written by Giancarlo Andenna and published by Vita e Pensiero. This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Serena Ferente
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351255029
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe written by Serena Ferente and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe examines the norms and practices of collective decision-making across pre-modern European history, east and west, and their influence in shaping both intra- and inter-communal relationships. Bringing together the work of twenty specialist contributors, this volume offers a unique range of case studies from Ancient Greece to the eighteenth century, and explores voting in a range of different contexts with analysis that encompasses constitutional and ecclesiastical history, social and cultural history, the history of material culture and of political thought. Together the case-studies illustrate the influence of ancient models and ideas of voting on medieval and early modern collectivities and document the cultural and conceptual exchange between different spheres in which voting took place. Above all, they foreground voting as a crucial element of Europe’s common political heritage and raise questions about the contribution of pre-modern cultures of voting to modern political and institutional developments. Offering a wide chronological and geographical scope, Cultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe is aimed at scholars and students of the history of voting and is a fascinating contribution to the key debates that surround voting today.
Author : Lucetta Scaraffia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674954786
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Women and Faith written by Lucetta Scaraffia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Italian women and Catholicism from the fourth through the twentieth century reflects this conflict and the tension between the masculine character of divinity in the Catholic church and the potential for equality in the gospels and early writings ("neither male nor female, but one in Jesus")."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Annali d'italianistica written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. Kendrick
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584509
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Celestial Sirens written by Robert L. Kendrick and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women's devotional life. The two centuries' worth of battles over nuns' singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns' musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Journal of Women's History written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith C. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317886577
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy written by Judith C. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dino S. Cervigni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Italian Epic & Its International Context written by Dino S. Cervigni and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Renee Baernstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136694536
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book A Convent Tale written by P. Renee Baernstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power often operates in strange and surprising ways. With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert their agency. In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period. Showing the nuns as neither helpless victims nor valiant rebels, but reasonable beings maneuvering as best they could within limits set by class, gender and culture. Baernstein writes against the tendency to depict women as inactive pawns, and shows that even within the convent walls, nuns were empowered by ties with their (often earthly) families and actively involved in the politics of the period. Both a major contribution to scholarship on gender, family and religion in early modern Europe, and a colorful well-told tale of Renaissance intrigue, A Convent Tale is sure to attract a wide range of academic and general readers.
Author : Centro ligure per la storia della ceramica
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
ISBN 13 : 8878143731
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)
Download or read book XL Convegno 2007: Italia, medio ed estremo Oriente: commerci, trasferimenti di tecnologie e influssi decorativi tra basso Medioevo ed Età moderna. written by Centro ligure per la storia della ceramica and published by All’Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sommario Julia Beltrán de Heredia, Núri Miró i Alaix, Aportación al estudio de las céramicas finas del Meditérraneo oriental, Siria/Egipto, y China en Barcelona; Claudio Capelli, Sauro Gelichi, Roberto Cabella, Caratterizzazione archeologica e archeometrica di ceramiche medievali da Harim (Siria); Giuseppe Immè, I materiali fittili tardomedievali di fabbrica locale da Garrison’s Camp (Cipro); Claudio Capelli, Catherina Richarté, Lucy Vallauri, Roberto Cabella, Florence Parent, Dati archeologici e archeometrici su alcune ceramcihe ingobbiate di area bizantina (sec. XII-XIII) rinvenute a Marsiglia; Anna Moore Valeri, Decorative motifs from the Far East in early majolica from Doccia (1740-1780); Raffaella Cassano, Caterina Laganara Fabiano, Lisa Pietropaolo, La ceramica in Puglia dal Tardoantico al Basso Medioevo tra Oriente e Occidente: nuovi dati; Pasquale Favia,Contatti transadriatici, rapporti con l’Oriente, mediazioni tecnologiche e culturali nella produzione ceramica bassomedievale della Puglia centrosettentrionale: gli influssi bizantini, la presenza saracena e le elaborazioni locali; Barbara Ciarrocchi, La ceramica smaltata di Gaeta: motivi zoomorfi e influssi decorativi dall’Oriente; Maria Raffaella Cataldo,Valenze islamiche dall’Irpinia nelle smaltate e invetriate a disegni zoomorfi; Palmina Pratillo, Motivi vegetali, astratto-geometrici edepigrafici di ascendenza islamica in alcune produzioni della Campania interna; MariangelaPreta, Emilia Andronico, Lo scavo archeologico di Piazza Italia (Reggio Calabria). Importazioni dal Mediterraneo di ceramiche fini e da trasporto; Marco Milanese, Laura Biccone, Le ceramiche dal Mediterraneo orientale in Sardegna Comunicazioni a tema libero Julia Beltrán de Heredia, Núria Miró i Alaix, Imitaciones de céramica ligur berettina en Barcelona; Valerio Diotto, Italia, Medio ed Estremo Oriente: commerci, trasferimenti di tecnologie ed influssi decorativi tra Basso Medioevo ed Età Moderna. Genova e Siviglia: laggioni a confronto; MarcellaGiorgio, Irene Trombetta, Vasellame privo di rivestimento depurato: aggiornamenti crono-tipologici su contenitori di produzione pisana provenienti da un contesto chiuso dello scavo di Via Toselli a Pisa; Marco Milanese, L’Inventario delle Robbe della Casina dell’Ostriche: dati sulla circolazione della ceramica a Livorno nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo; Marco Milanese, Irene Trombetta, Committenze di vasellame nei monasteri urbani di Pescia tra XVII e XVIII secolo. Il monastero di San Michele; Simona Pannuzi, Recenti ritrovamenti ceramici a Cori: ceramiche smaltate tardomedievali; Luigi Di Cosmo, Ceramica a vetrina pesante da San Vincenzo al Volturno (IS) ed invetriata verde solcata da Sant’Angelo da Alife (CE). Considerazioni su materiale dell’area interna della valle del Volturno; Simona Bruni, I ‘caroselli’, caratterizzazione e impiego di vasi cavi nel costruito storico calabrese; Marta Caroscio, La transizione fra Medioevo e Rinascimento e l’impiego del blu nelle smaltate basso medievali italiane. Materie prime e luoghi di approvvigionamento: fonti scritte e analisi archeometriche a confronto.
Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226769364
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice written by Jutta Gisela Sperling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, Jutta Gisela Sperling debunks this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Sperling explains how women were not allowed to marry beneath their social status while men could, especially if their brides were wealthy. Faced with a shortage of suitable partners, patrician women were forced to offer themselves as "a gift not only to God, but to their fatherland," as Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo told the Senate of Venice in 1619. Noting the declining birth rate among patrician women, Sperling explores the paradox of a marriage system that preserved the nobility at the price of its physical extinction. And on a more individual level, she tells the fascinating stories of these women. Some became scholars or advocates of women's rights, some took lovers, and others escaped only to survive as servants, prostitutes, or thieves.
Author : Massimo Mazzotti
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421410427
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God written by Massimo Mazzotti and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of mathematician Maria Agnesi. She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair of mathematics at the university in Bologna. In later years, however, she became a prominent figure within the Catholic Enlightenment, gave up academics, and devoted herself to the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the homeless. Indeed, the life of Maria Agnesi reveals a complex and enigmatic figure—one of the most fascinating characters in the history of mathematics. Using newly discovered archival documents, Massimo Mazzotti reconstructs the wide spectrum of Agnesi's social experience and examines her relationships to various traditions—religious, political, social, and mathematical. This meticulous study shows how she and her fellow Enlightenment Catholics modified tradition in an effort to reconcile aspects of modern philosophy and science with traditional morality and theology. Mazzotti's original and provocative investigation is also the first targeted study of the Catholic Enlightenment and its influence on modern science. He argues that Agnesi's life is the perfect lens through which we can gain a greater understanding of mid-eighteenth-century cultural trends in continental Europe.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360611
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Genoa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medieval Genoa introduces non-specialists to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Genoa. Focusing mostly on the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Genoa and the Genoese within the broader history of the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Thematic contributions highlight the interdependence of local, regional, and international concerns, and serve as a helpful corrective to the traditional overemphasis of Florence and Venice in the English-language historiography of medieval Italy. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Italy—as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Genoese archives—to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields. Contributors are Ross Balzaretti, Carrie E. Beneš, Denise Bezzina, Roberta Braccia, Luca Filangieri, George L. Gorse, Paola Guglielmotti, Thomas Kirk, Sandra Macchiavello, Merav Mack, Jeffrey Miner, Rebecca Müller, Antonio Musarra, Sandra Origone, Giovanna Petti Balbi, Valeria Polonio, Gervase Rosser, Antonella Rovere, Stefan Stantchev, and Carlo Taviani.
