... of a thoroughly secular Renaissance. a Geographies of Charity: Women and the Vita mista in Renaissance Italy Jane Tylus New York University...

... 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a Artisans and Religious Reading in Late Medieval Italy and Northern France (ca. 1400 – ca. 1520) Sabrina Corbellini...

... a Domesticating Cannibalism: Visual Rhetorics of Madness and Maternal Infanticide in Fifteenth-Century­ Italy Diana Bullen Presciutti The College of Wooster...

... and the processes of reproduction were contested. A close examination of the use of anatomy, both rhetorical and real, in the Fabrica , in male-authored midwifery manuals, and in the formal regulation of midwifery in seventeenth-century Italy reveals the ways in which authority and anatomy were contested in early...

... in Early Modern Italy Daniela Frigo Università degli Studi di Trieste Trieste, Italy Translated by John Watkins University of Minnesota...

... 2009 a “Worn in Venice and throughout Italy”: The Impossible Present in Cesare Vecellio’s Costume Books Ann Rosalind Jones...

... sociability in sixteenth-century Italy. To this end, understanding the social and cultural context within which Italian men grew and cared for their beards during the period will help explain the meaning of a unique feature of Bruno's play, while examining Bruno's play will in its turn help dramatize more...

...Andrew R. Casper This essay recovers the dialectics of authenticity informed by the reinvigorated emergence of the Mandylion of Edessa as an authorized early Christian relic in Counter-Reformation Italy. The original was a miraculously generated icon of Christ's face which later became a major...

... of Renaissance culture. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219578 © 2020 by Duke University Press Competing Humanisms: Debating Cultural Identity in Leonardo Bruni s Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum Giuliano Mori University of Milan Milan, Italy Humanist cultural...

... information about the time and cause of death. Thus, in France the field of forensic medicine was emerging, just as it was in Italy in these same years through the studies of Paolo Zacchia. Finally, as Felipe Pereda makes clear in his essay on Francisco Goya, physiognomy continued to play a significant...

.... 73 On the ambiguous attitude of the Roman Church toward physiognomy, see Neil Tarrant, “The Ambiguities of Censorship in Post-Tridentine Italy: The Case of Physiognomy,” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 8, no. 2 (2019): 171–201; Bragagnolo, “Fisiognomica...

...Sharon T. Strocchia This essay examines suicidal behaviors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Catholic convents in light of the new attitudes toward voluntary death emerging across Europe between 1500 and 1700. Focusing on Italy, which housed the greatest number of enclosed religious women...

... for early modern reception studies as they address poetry, romance, letters, history, hagiography, autobiography, and literary reviews. The transnational perspectives that emerge lead from the Low Countries to Italy, Ireland to France and the Spanish Netherlands, Spain to England, and England to France...

... approaches. Because of the physical distance separating the documentary evidence, rarely have comparisons been made between sumptuary laws from different geographical areas. This study offers just such a comparison of the laws enacted in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and England between the thirteenth...

... the context of his experiences in the Norman world of southern Italy understood interactions between Christians and Muslims far differently from his contemporaries in northern France. This is a world in which the lines between Islam and Christianity were more fluid than we would at first expect. While...

..., trade in Italy had accelerated exponentially, and global net- works involved newly widening commercial markets for individual con- sumption, from localized shops to international fairs and overseas depots.6 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:3, Fall 2009...

... Lara Westwater, eds. Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy . The Early Modern Exchange. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2023. ix, 297 pp., 4 color and 9 black-and-white illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. Otaño Gracia, Nahir I., and Daniel Armenti, eds. Women’s...

... the images in public markets or fixed shops, and perhaps from local cartolai, stationers who, in Italy, had become increasingly involved in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the mak- ing and selling of illuminated manuscript books. As Anna Melograni has argued, these artisans often acted...

...: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400 – 1600 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005); Barbara Furlotti, A Baron and His Possessions: Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Duke of Bracciano (1541 – 1585) (Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2012); Renata Ago, Gusto delle cose (Roma: Donizelli, 2006), trans...