Douglas Biow

On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy

Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards

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Produktbeschreibung

Douglas Biow is Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Director of its Center for European Studies. He is the author of In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy; Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy; and The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy, among other books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 995g
• ISBN-13: 9780812246711
• ISBN-10: 0812246713
• Artikelnr.: 42201458

Autorenporträt

Douglas Biow

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
ART I. PROFESSIONALISM
Chapter 1. Professionally Speaking: The Value of Ars and Arte in
Renaissance Italy—Reflections on the Historical Reach of Techne
Chapter 2. Reflections on Professions and Humanism in Renaissance Italy and
the Humanities Today
PART II. MAVERICKS
Chapter 3. Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Reflections on the
Peculiar Case of Leonardo Fioravanti's Writings
Chapter 4. Visualizing Cleanliness, Visualizing Washerwomen in Venice and
Renaissance Italy: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Jacopo Tintoretto's
Jews in the Desert
PART III. BEARDS
Chapter 5. Facing the Day: Reflections on a Sudden Change in Fashion and
the Magisterial Beard
Chapter 6. Manly Matters: Reflections on Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and the
Theatrical and Social Function of Beards in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments