Renaissance Culture and the Everyday /

Renaissance Culture and the Everyday / / Simon Hunt, Patricia Fumerton.

It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own homes with graffiti.Items and a...

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Fumerton, Patricia,
Hunt, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©1998
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:New Cultural Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 52 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction: A New New Historicism
  • 2. The "I" of the Beholder
  • 3. "Reasonable Creatures"
  • 4. "Pox on Your Distinction!"
  • 5. Homely Accents
  • 6. Everyday Life, Longevity, and Nuns in Early Modern Florence
  • 7. Constructing the Female Self
  • 8. The Buck Basket, the Witch, and the Queen of Fairies
  • 9. Three Ways to be Invisible in the Renaissance
  • 10. Household Chastisements
  • 11. Money and the Regulation of Desire
  • 12. Reorganizing Knowledge
  • 13. "The Catastrophe Is a Nuptial"
  • 14. "Leaving Out the Insurrection"
  • 15. Graffiti, Grammatology, and the Age of Shakespeare
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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