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Cambridge University Press Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence

Name: Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence
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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.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 110700294X
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Italy
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Release Date: 22 August 2011
Listed Since: 30 August 2010

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