Women in Italy 1350-1650: Ideals and Realities

by Mary Rogers and Paola Tinagli

This enlightening book aims to fill the gap in the literature on women's lives from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, a time in which Italian urban societies saw much debate on the nature of women and on their roles, education and behaviour. Indeed these were debates which would in subsequent years resonate throughout Europe as a whole.

Using a broad range of contemporary source material, most of which has never been translated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719072093
• ISBN13: 9780719072093
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"