Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence [electronic resource] / Philip Gavitt.

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"This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the...

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Main Author: Gavitt, Philip, 1950-
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Charities > Italy > Florence > History.
Families > Economic aspects > Italy > Florence > History.
Renaissance > Italy > Florence.
Women > Italy > Florence > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Charity and state-building
  • 2. Gender, lineage ideology, and the development of a status culture
  • 3. Law and the majesty of practice
  • 4. Innocence and danger: pedagogy, discipline, and the culture of masculinity
  • 5. From putte to puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions
  • 6. Unruly nuns : convents and cloistering
  • Conclusion.