Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence /
"This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence"--
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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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.