On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy : : Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards /

On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy : : Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards / / Douglas Biow.

In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in...

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Biow, Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Haney Foundation Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 56 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I. PROFESSIONALISM
  • Chapter 1. Professionally Speaking: The Value of Ars and Arte in Renaissance Italy-Reflections on the Historical Reach of Techne
  • Chapter 2. Reflections on Professions and Humanism in Renaissance Italy and the Humanities Today
  • PART II. MAVERICKS
  • Chapter 3. Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Leonardo Fioravanti's Writings
  • Chapter 4. Visualizing Cleanliness, Visualizing Washerwomen in Venice and Renaissance Italy: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Jacopo Tintoretto's Jews in the Desert
  • PART III. BEARDS
  • Chapter 5. Facing the Day: Reflections on a Sudden Change in Fashion and the Magisterial Beard
  • Chapter 6. Manly Matters: Reflections on Giordano Bruno's Candelaio, and the Theatrical and Social Function of Beards in Sixteenth-Century Italy
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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