Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance /

Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance / / Carolyn Springer.

During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained fo...

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Springer, Carolyn,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2010
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Photograph Credits
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: ARMOURED BODIES
  • 1. The Classical Body: The Poetics of the Bella Figura
  • 2. The Sacred Body: The Armour of Sacrifice
  • 3. The Grotesque Body: Tropes and Apotropes
  • PART TWO: STUDIES IN SELF-FASHIONING
  • 4. Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514-74)
  • 5. Charles V Habsburg (1500-58)
  • 6. Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74)
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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