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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence
  name:
    name part: Gavitt, Philip
    name part: 1950-2020
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence"--
  abstract: "This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease, and growing economic inequality on the Italian peninsula displaced hundreds of thousands of families during this period. In order to handle the social crises generated by war, competition for social position, and the abandonment of children, a series of private and public initiatives expanded existing charitable institutions and founded new ones. Philip Gavitt's research reveals the important role played by lineage ideology among Florence's elites in the use and manipulation of these charitable institutions in the often futile pursuit of economic and social stability. Considering families of all social levels, he argues that the pursuit of family wealth and prestige often worked at cross-purposes with the survival of the very families it was supposed to preserve"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Charity and state-building; 2. Gender, lineage ideology, and the development of a status culture; 3. Law and the majesty of practice; 4. Innocence and danger: pedagogy, discipline, and the culture of masculinity; 5. From putte to puttane: female foundlings and charitable institutions; 6. Unruly nuns: convents and cloistering; Conclusion.
  note: Philip Gavitt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Charities
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Florence
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Families
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Florence
    topic: History
  classification: HV295.F5 G38 2011
  classification: 361.70945/51109031
  classification: HIS010000
  identifier: 9781107002944 (hardback)
  identifier: 110700294X (hardback)
  identifier: 2010042281
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 101001
    record change date: 20201128064746.0
    record identifier: in00002726751