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Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: Identities, families and masculinities (Gender in History) - Softcover

Cavallo, Sandra

 
9780719081514: Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: Identities, families and masculinities (Gender in History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719081513 ISBN 13: 9780719081514
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period.

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About the Author

Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London

From the Back Cover

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 'artisans of the body' offers unprecedented insight into the world of the urban middling sorts.

The book will represent essential reading for scholars and students of gender, family and urban history in the early modern age, and will equally appeal to historians of the body and of the medical occupations.

From the Inside Flap

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 artisans of the body offers unprecedented insight into the world of the urban middling sorts. The book will represent essential reading for scholars and students of gender, family and urban history in the early modern age, and will equally appeal to historians of the body and of the medical occupations.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719081513
ISBN 13 
9780719081514
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296