Overview
- Examines the impact of Italian fatherhood from a variety of unique entry points including paternal emotions and the mercantilism economy
- Connects medieval and early modern perspectives to contemporary discussions about the changing roles of Italian fatherhood
- Provides readers with a wide range of Italian writers including Leon Battista Alberti and Giannozzo Manetti.
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“Vitullo’s book marks the first attempt to connect cultural and economic practices to ideas of fatherhood, and does so in a compelling fashion. Her contribution is a highly original study, and relies on humanistic and poetic analysis to show how fifteenth-century Italians viewed fathers and wealth. In telling her story about fatherhood in its cultural context, the author advances what we know about patriarchy at a moment of rapid social transformation.” (Bianca Lopez, W.R. Nicholson Endowed Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA)
“This engaging volume brilliantly analyzes Italian Renaissance fatherhood. Vitullo examines an extraordinary range of sources to explore merchants who impregnate their slaves, portray themselves as charitable, and struggle with how much affection to show their sons. Historically grounded and theoretically challenging, Vitullo revolutionizes the way we think about Renaissance fatherhood.” (Diane Wolfthal, David and Caroline Minter Professor of Humanities, Rice University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Juliann Vitullo is Associate Professor of Italian, Senior Sustainability Scholar, and Co-Director of the Humanities Lab at Arizona State University, USA. She has written on various aspects of medieval, early modern, and contemporary Italian culture with emphasis on the relationship between textual traditions and the material world, including money and food. Her publications include The Chivalric Epic in Medieval Italy (2000) as well as the co-edited volumes: At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2007) and Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Authors: Juliann Vitullo
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29045-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29044-3Published: 27 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29047-4Published: 27 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29045-0Published: 14 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, European Literature