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Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780754662143
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, History, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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