ISBN:
9780195083200
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9781280526527
,
0195083202
,
9780195079302
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0195079302
,
1280443502
,
9781280443503
,
1280526521
,
1423736761
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9781423736769
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 286 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Zapalac, Kristin E. S. [Rezension von: Ruggiero, Guido, Binding Passions. Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance] 1994
Parallel Title:
Print version Binding passions
DDC:
306.094531
Keywords:
Sex customs History
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Italy
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Venice
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Sexual ethics History
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Italy
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Venice
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Marriage History
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Italy
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Venice
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Renaissance Italy
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Venice
;
Sex customs History
;
Sexual ethics History
;
Marriage History
;
Renaissance
;
Renaissance
;
Marriage History
;
Sex customs History
;
Sexual ethics History
;
Electronic books Italy
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Venice
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Marriage
;
Renaissance
;
Sex customs
;
Sexual ethics
;
History
;
Italy ; Venice
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich complexity of the culture and poetics of the everyday at the end of the Renaissance and illuminates a previously unexplored chapter in Italian history
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Carne vale and carnivalLove bound : Andriana Savorgnan, common whore, courtesan, and noble wife -- "More dear to me than life itself" : marriage, honor, and a woman's reputation in the Renaissance -- That old black magic called love -- The women priests of Latisana : Apollonia Madizza and the ties that bind -- "The fortune-telling friar" : Fra Aurelio di Siena and the wages of sin -- Afterword : the poetry of the everyday and binding passions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-273) and index. - Description based on print version record
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