Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence /

Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 280 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Charities -- Italy -- Florence -- History. Families -- Economic aspects -- Italy -- Florence -- History. Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence. Women -- Italy -- Florence -- History. Charities. Families -- Economic aspects. Renaissance. Women. Charities -- history. History, Medieval. Family -- history. Socioeconomic Factors -- history. Italy -- Florence. Italy. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11829965

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ISBN:	9781139078320 1139078321 9781107002944 110700294X 9781139080613
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve"--
Other form:	Print version: Gavitt, Philip, 1950- Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107002944

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Charity and state-building
2. Gender, lineage ideology, and the development of a status culture
3. Law and the majesty of practice
4. Innocence and danger: pedagogy, discipline, and the culture of masculinity
5. From putte to puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions
6. Unruly nuns : convents and cloistering
Conclusion.