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Humanism, Venice, and Women : Essays on the Italian Renaissance, Hardback Book

Humanism, Venice, and Women : Essays on the Italian Renaissance Hardback

Part of the Variorum Collected Studies series

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Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L.

King's distinct but interlocking scholarly interests: humanism and Venice; women and humanism; and women of the Italian Renaissance.

The first part focuses on defining the key characteristics of Venetian as opposed to other Italian humanisms, with an analysis of Gramscian theory about the historical role of intellectuals as an aid to understanding humanism in Venice, followed by essays on three Venetian humanists who wrote about family relationships (or the need to avoid them).

The third section introduces the major Renaissance women humanists and analyzes the relation of their work to that of male humanists, along with an essay on Renaissance mothers of sons, in Italy and beyond.

Crossing boundaries of region and gender, and the subdisciplines of intellectual and social history, these essays are provocative in themselves while demonstrating how shifting historiographical contexts encourage scholars to view the historical record in new and fruitful ways.

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