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Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McClure, George W., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1450-1600
Women > Italy > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Women > Italy > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Women > Italy > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Indoor games > Social aspects > Italy > History > 16th century.
Renaissance > Italy.
Femmes > Italie > Mœurs et coutumes > 16e siècle.
Femmes > Italie > Vie intellectuelle > 16e siècle.
Femmes > Italie > Histoire > 1450-1600 (Renaissance)
Renaissance > Italie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Manners and customs.
Renaissance.
Women > Intellectual life.
Women > Renaissance.
Women > Social life and customs.
Italy > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Italie > Mœurs et coutumes > 16e siècle.
Italy.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.
ISBN:9781442666122
1442666129

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