Title Masculinities, childhood, violence : attending to early modern women--and men : proceedings of the 2006 symposium / edited by Amy E. Leonard and Karen L. Nelson

Published Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 392 pages) : illustrations Series Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies (Series) Contents Introduction : attending to early modern women-and men / Amy E. Leonard -- pt. 1. Theorizing early modern masculinity and maleness: Showing the heart : love, friendship, and anatomy in early modern portraiture / Sarah R. Cohen ; Manhood, patriarchy, and gender in early modern history / Alexandra Shepard ; Hymeneal instruction / Margaret Ferguson -- pt. 2. Childhood: Sugar and spice and everything nice : gender difference in German primary school education / Amy E. Leonard ; All you need is love : music, romance, and adolescent recreation in sixteenth-century France ; The virgin's body and early modern surgeons / Valeria Finucci -- pt. 3. Violence: Bosch's Iron age / Margaret D. Carroll ; English child-murder news and the culture of equity / Randall Martin ; Violence, gender, and race in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Susan D. Amussen -- pt. 4. Pedagogies: Telling tales : women in the early modern Arab world / Judith E. Tucker ; Masculinity, manliness, and mediocrity : the case of Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541-85) / Caroline P. Murphy Summary This interdisciplinary volume examines the role that gender plays in the early modern period and explores the shift in scholarly understanding of women's lives and works when they are placed alongside nuanced considerations of men's lives and works. With material drawing from the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women_and Men symposium, the varied contributions consider women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean, and the Islamic world Notes "Sixth symposium sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, [University of Maryland]"--Preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Congresses Men -- Identity -- History -- Congresses Violence -- History -- Congresses Children -- History -- Congresses Civilization, Modern -- 17th century -- Congresses SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. Children Civilization, Modern Men -- Identity Violence Women -- Renaissance Kvinnohistoria -- renässansen. Män -- manlighet. Barn -- Genus. Våld. Kulturhistoria. Kvinnor -- historia. Män -- historia. Könsidentitet. Våld -- historia. Barn -- historia. Kulturhistoria. Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Leonard, Amy, 1966- Nelson, Karen L., 1965- University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies. ISBN 1611490197 9781611490190 1283233959 9781283233958 9786613233950 6613233951

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