10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy Synopsis

This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently distant trades of jeweller, tailor, wigmaker and upholsterer. Drawing on contemporary understandings of the body, the author shows that shared concerns about health and well-being permeated the professional cultures of these medical and non-medical occupations. At the same time the detailed analysis of the life-course, career patterns and family experience of ‘artisans of the body’ offers unprecedented insight into the world of the urban middling sorts. The book will represent essential reading for scholars and students of gender, family and urban history in the early modern age, and will equally appeal to historians of the body and of the medical occupations. -- .

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780719081514
Publication date: 1st June 2010
Author: Sandra Cavallo
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 296 pages
Series: Gender in History
Genres: History and Archaeology
European history