Douglas Biow / On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy Men

Description: On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (Haney Foundation Series) Author: Douglas Biow Title: On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (Haney Foundation Series) Publication: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 Description: Hardcover. New oversized hardcover in new dust jacket. 4to. (7.1 x 1 x 10.1 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, bibliography, index, and figures. 328 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it. Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader European Renaissance.. Seller ID: 100743 Subject: Anthropology, Italy , World History The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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