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Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy
Identities, Families and Masculinities
ISBN: 9780719076626
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
In Baroque Europe, new fashions, the expansion of court life and the emergence of a genteel style of living called for new services for the body. This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently unconnected trades of jeweler, tailor, wigmaker and upholsterer. More
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This book reveals the cultural and social links existing between artisans involved in the care, comfort and appearance of the body - barbers, surgeons, jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers and others. It throws new light on crucial aspects of the experience of the urban middling sort, a still under investigated sector of the early modern population. It uses exceptional sources to provide a unique example of the potential of biographical analysis applied to a middling group. The book is also a significant contribution to the new literature on masculinity: the detailed study of a Southern European, Catholic case adds important new perspectives to the existing picture, largely constructed on Protestant examples. It provides vivid details about the life-cycle of these artisans, their lifestyle and family experience.
