Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families and Masculinities
This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently distant trades of jeweller, tailor, wigmaker and upholsterer. Drawing on contemporary understandings of the body, the author shows that shared concerns about health and well-being permeated the professional cultures of these medical and non-medical occupations. At the same time the detailed analysis of the life-course, career patterns and family experience of…
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Weitere Autoren: Sharpe, Pamela (Hrsg.) / Summerfield, Penny (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8151-4
- EAN: 9780719081514
- Produktnummer: 6432003
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
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Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London
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