This dissertation aims to confront the two archetypes of the prostitute and the adulterous woman in the XVIth century Venetian society. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this text examines literary works – well known and unpublished – and the legal sources of the Serenissima. Looking beyond binary oppositions between individual desires for freedom and the repressive control apparatus by the State, this study works to clarify the ways in which the sexual tensions come from the economical, political and social contradictions which governed gender relationships in the republic of Venice. It first analyzes sexual and sentimental norms of the early-modern society. It will then define the ways in which licit and illicit love overlap, especiall...
International audienceDespised and mocked, but also idolized in her hieratic function, the prostitut...
Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy – artisans, merchants, a...
This dissertation examines the complex intersections of sexuality and power in sixteenth century Flo...
This dissertation aims to confront the two archetypes of the prostitute and the adulterous woman in ...
This dissertation aims to confront the two archetypes of the prostitute and the adulterous woman in ...
Cette thèse confronte les deux figures féminines de la prostituée et de la femme adultère dans la so...
This paper considers several cases that came before Venetian tribunals in the eighteenth century con...
This monograph, published in the Ashgate Historical Urban Studies series, edited by Richard Rodger a...
The Novelle galanti is a collection of licentious tales in verse written by the Italian poet Casti a...
Invectives against the courtesan—a more educated, erudite, and socially elite version of the ordinar...
This study treats the literary representations of the “demon of fornication” and the adjacent notion...
221 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.Much of the conflation of ero...
Emancipating itself from the prohibitions dictated by religious tradition and the mores of the time,...
The paper revisits the relations between courtly love and social conditions of the Western eleventh ...
Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues ...
International audienceDespised and mocked, but also idolized in her hieratic function, the prostitut...
Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy – artisans, merchants, a...
This dissertation examines the complex intersections of sexuality and power in sixteenth century Flo...
This dissertation aims to confront the two archetypes of the prostitute and the adulterous woman in ...
This dissertation aims to confront the two archetypes of the prostitute and the adulterous woman in ...
Cette thèse confronte les deux figures féminines de la prostituée et de la femme adultère dans la so...
This paper considers several cases that came before Venetian tribunals in the eighteenth century con...
This monograph, published in the Ashgate Historical Urban Studies series, edited by Richard Rodger a...
The Novelle galanti is a collection of licentious tales in verse written by the Italian poet Casti a...
Invectives against the courtesan—a more educated, erudite, and socially elite version of the ordinar...
This study treats the literary representations of the “demon of fornication” and the adjacent notion...
221 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.Much of the conflation of ero...
Emancipating itself from the prohibitions dictated by religious tradition and the mores of the time,...
The paper revisits the relations between courtly love and social conditions of the Western eleventh ...
Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues ...
International audienceDespised and mocked, but also idolized in her hieratic function, the prostitut...
Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy – artisans, merchants, a...
This dissertation examines the complex intersections of sexuality and power in sixteenth century Flo...