Deanna Shemek's Books

Ladies Errant

Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

By: Deanna Shemek

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ladies Errant

Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

By: Deanna Shemek

The issue of a woman's place--and the possibility that she might stray from it--was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Deanna Shemek presents the problem of wayward feminine behavior as it was perceived to threaten male identity and social order in the artistic and intellectual climate of the Italian Renaissance. LADIES ERRANT will interest scholars in Italian studies, women's studies, and European culture. 8 photos.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

082232167X

ISBN 13

9780822321675

Ladies Errant

Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

By: Deanna Shemek

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ladies Errant

Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

By: Deanna Shemek

Examines gender relations in early modern Italy, focusing on ways women escaped the social constraints prescribed for them during the 15th and 16th centuries. Shemek examines a variety of social phenomena of this period, including the run by prostitutes

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Published Date

ISBN 10

082239989X

ISBN 13

9780822399896

In Continuous Expectation

Isabella D'Este's Reign of Letters

By: Deanna Shemek

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In Continuous Expectation

Isabella D'Este's Reign of Letters

By: Deanna Shemek

A monograph study of the correspondence (1490-1539) of Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), daughter of the Este princes of Ferrara and marchesa of Mantua. Because her letters are so numerous, so wide ranging, and so explicit about their own production and circulation, this book is also, by extension, a book about postal communication in sixteenth-century Europe. In examining Isabella d'Este's letters as both documentary evidence and scripted performance, In Conspicuous Expectation proposes a view of the early modern letter as a technology: a tool and a medium not only for investigating, persuading, and reporting, but also for the circulation of the writer's persona within the many speech acts letters are designed to perform. Isabella d'Este was an extraordinary figure, for many reasons. Her letters are presented here not only as vehicles for the activities and personal expression of one, remarkable woman, but also as examples of a shared epistolary culture in which both men and women participated and that rewards the attention of anyone interested in the values, practices, concerns, and indeed the people of Renaissance Italy. Places: Ferrara, Mantua, Italy. Historical characters: Isabella d'Este (1474-1539); Francesco II Gonzaga (1466-1519); Federico II Gonzaga (1500-1540)."--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

214

Published Date

ISBN 10

0772725241

ISBN 13

9780772725240

Book's by Deanna Shemek

Ladies Errant

Ladies Errant

Ladies Errant

Ladies Errant

In Continuous Expectation

In Continuous Expectation

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email