Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Title | Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rosalind Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521786638 |
This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
Worldly Goods
Title | Worldly Goods PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Jardine |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780393318661 |
'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Title | Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Margreta de Grazia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 1996-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521455893 |
This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.
The Culture of Clothing
Title | The Culture of Clothing PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Roche |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 564 |
Release | 1996-10-10 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521574549 |
Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential argument is that there was a 'vestimentary revolution' in the later eighteenth century as all sections of the population became caught up in the world of fashion and fast-moving consumption.
Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
Title | Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Klapisch-Zuber |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 1987-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226439267 |
English translations of the author's most important articles.
Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy
Title | Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Eugenia Paulicelli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 510 |
Release | 2016-02-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134787103 |
The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the ’animatedness of clothing,’ author Eugenia Paulicelli explores the political meanings that clothing produces in public space. At the core of the book is the idea that the texts examined here act as maps that, first, pinpoint the establishment of fashion as a social institution of modernity; and, second, gauge the meaning of clothing at a personal and a political level. As well as Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Cesare Vecellio’s The Clothing of the Renaissance World, the author looks at works by Italian writers whose books are not yet available in English translation, such as those by Giacomo Franco, Arcangela Tarabotti, and Agostino Lampugnani. Paying particular attention to literature and the relevance of clothing in the shaping of codes of civility and style, this volume complements the existing and important works on Italian fashion and material culture in the Renaissance. It makes the case for the centrality of Italian literature and the interconnectedness of texts from a variety of genres for an understanding of the history of Italian style, and serves to contextualize the debate on dress in other European literatures.
Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse
Title | Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Pamela S Hammons |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1409475875 |
An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collections—including the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyer—and situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of property and economic agents—in relation to material items ranging from personal property to real estate—despite the dominant patriarchal ideology insisting they were ideally temporary, passive vehicles for men's wealth. The study details how women imagined their multiple, complex interactions with the material world:the author shows that how a woman poet represents herself in relation to material objects is a flexible fiction she can mobilize for diverse purposes. Because this book analyzes men's and women's poems together, it isolates important gendered differences in how the poets envision human subjects' use, control, possession, and ownership of things and the influences, effects, and power of things over humans. It also adds to the increasing evidence for the pervasiveness of patriarchal anxieties associated with female economic agency in a culture in which women were often treated as objects.