Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 14137
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Magnavacca , Silvia.
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  • Title: La moglie nel discorso individualistico di Leon Battista Alberti [for the later Middle Ages, we have better records of women's lives, not just normative sources; the prescriptive writings of clerics contain different emphases--on complementarity and on obedience; Leon Battista Alberti stresses individuality, but the only individual in his ideal household is the husband; the wife is expected to be fertile; otherwise, her role differs little from that of servants in the household].
  • Source: Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell'arte, la cultura, e la società del '400. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15-16-17 Settembre, 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca.  Edited by Stéphane Toussaint. Translated by Clotilde Soave Bowe..  Edizioni S. Marco Litotipo, 1995.  Pages 271 - 281.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Adam (Biblical Figure) Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Eve (Biblical Figure) Households Marriage
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available