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Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: Identities, families and masculinities
Contributor(s): Cavallo, Sandra (Author), Storey, Tessa (Author)

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 ISBN: 0719076625     ISBN-13: 9780719076626
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE: $123.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2007
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Annotation: This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort, and appearance of the body in 17th and early 18th century Italy. It brings to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber, surgeons, and the apparently distant trades of jeweler, tailor, wigmaker, and upholsterer. Drawing on contemporary understandings of the body, the author shows that shared concerns about health and wellbeing 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.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Italy
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 306.461
Series: Gender in History (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5.77" W x 8.75" L (1.09 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
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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