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Record Number:
3385
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Stuard , Susan Mosher.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Gravitas and Consumption [The author explores why the "sapientes," the leaders of Venice and Florence, regulated consumption for their wives, daughters and sons but not for themselves].
Source:
Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray. Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Pages 215 - 242. Republished in Considering Medieval Women and Gender. Susan Mosher Stuard. Ashgate Variorum, 2010. Chapter IV.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Consumption
Economics
Elite Men
Fashion
Florence
Luxury Trade
Masculinity
Sumptuary Laws
Venice
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Italy
Century:
14- 15
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Two Figures. Figure One Silver reliquary from the Treasury of St. Mark, Venice. Fourteenth century. The author points out that the male figure wears a military-inspired short tunic with buttons. Figure Two School of Giotto, "Vision of Zachariah," fourteenth century fresco. The author points out that the chief male figure wears a sumptuous long robe with a decorative boarder.
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Author's Affiliation:
Haverford College
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1999.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815330308