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Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in
Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as
bankers and lawyers - this book focuses on new social subjects, new
documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry
and interdisciplinary analytical tools, contributors explore a
little-known but pervasive erotic culture in which sexually
explicit artefacts, games and gestures were considered essential to
a number of rituals and social occasions. At the same time, they
demonstrate how a burgeoning market for erotica, along with a
cultural tradition of allusion and innuendo, played an increasingly
important role in the Italian peninsula between the fifteenth and
early seventeenth centuries. This volume fills some pervasive
lacunae in both Renaissance studies and the history of sexuality
through a series of critical engagements with material culture and
social custom. It reflects recent scholarly interest in
interdisciplinary areas such as the material Renaissance, visual
communications, urban sociability in the domestic context, and
court records regarding marital disputes.
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