Parlour games and the public life of women in Renaissance Italy /:

Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centur...

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1. Verfasser: McClure, George W., 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
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Zusammenfassung:Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.
ISBN:9781442666122
1442666129

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