Peter Bokody (University of Plymouth)

The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first comprehensive study of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. It examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing. It offers a historical reconstruction of multiple views that have evident relevance to our contemporary situation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 184mm x 261mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9781009100687
• ISBN-10: 1009100688
• Artikelnr.: 64359721

Autorenporträt

Péter Bokody is Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250¿1350): Reality and Reflexivity (Routledge, 2016) and the co-editor of Renaissance Metapainting (Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Victims of lust
3. Medicalized misogyny
4. Rape as a weapon of war
5. Political allegories
6. Abduction in illustrated romances
7. Lucretia and the renaissance rape.