In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbic...

Eleonora di Toledo was a powerful and influential woman who, over the course of nearly a quarter ...

A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities presents confraternities as fundamentall...

This ground-breaking study of Italian-Canadian writers and artists with roots in Istria and Dalma...

This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the 12th and th...

Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, ...

First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a ...

Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, ...

Giovan Maria Cecchi (1517-1587) was the most prolific and popular of sixteenth-century Florentine...

A study of a religious organization for youths (aged 13-14) founded in Florence in 1411 that is f...

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of...

Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also divers...