Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy examines contested notions of fatherhood in written and visual texts during the development of the mercantile economy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy. It analyzes debates about the household and community management of wealth, emotion, and trade in luxury “goods,” including enslaved women, as moral questions. Juliann Vitullo considers how this mercantile economy affected paternity and the portraits of ideal fatherhood, which in some cases reconceived the role of fathers and in others reconfirmed traditional notions of paternal authority.
| ISBN: | 9783030290474 |
| Publication date: | 27th November 2020 |
| Author: | Juliann Vitullo |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 215 pages |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: general Literature: history and criticism |