The Manly Masquerade Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance【電子書籍】[ Valeria Finucci ]

＜p＞＜em＞The Manly Masquerade＜/em＞ unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso, and Ariosto. Valeria Finucci shows how ideas of masculinity were formed in the midst of acute anxiety about paternity by highlighting the beliefsーwidely held at the timeーthat conception could occur without a paternal imprimatur or through a woman’s encounter with an animal, or even that a pregnant woman’s imagination could erase the father’s "signature" from the fetus. Against these visions of reproduction gone awry, Finucci looks at how concepts of masculinity were tied to issues of paternity through social standing, legal matters, and inheritance practices.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Highlighting the fissures running through Italian Renaissance ideas of manliness, Finucci ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る