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Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy - Identities, Families and Masculinities (Paperback)
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Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy - Identities, Families and Masculinities (Paperback)
Series: Gender in History
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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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