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Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy
Jr. Samuel K. Cohn
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 264 pages, 19, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
"These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter Reformation visitations of the 1570s. In this sense, these essays run directly counter to Jacob Burckhardt's claim for Renaissance Italy, 'that women stood on a footing of perfect equality with men." Challenging conventional views of the history of women in the Italian Renaissance, Cohn examines the lives primarily of non-elite women and looks at their experiences in various ... Read more
"These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter Reformation visitations of the 1570s. In this sense, these essays run directly counter to Jacob Burckhardt's claim for Renaissance Italy, 'that women stood on a footing of perfect equality with men." Challenging conventional views of the history of women in the Italian Renaissance, Cohn examines the lives primarily of non-elite women and looks at their experiences in various ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801853098
SKU
V9780801853098
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About Jr. Samuel K. Cohn
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife, and The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy, the last two available from Johns Hopkins. ... Read more
Reviews for Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy
Together these essays from this distinguished Renaissance historian will challenge and inform students and scholars. They represent social history at its finest, posing proper questions and marshaling substantial evidence to support all conclusions.
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