Widow city gender, emotion, and community in the Italian Renaissance / Anna Wainwright.
| Author/creator | Wainwright, Anna |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, [2025] |
| Description | x, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The early modern exchange |
| Contents | Dante, Petrarch, and the ethics of widowhood -- Boccaccio's many merry widows -- Sacred role models from Judith and Anna to Birgitta of Sweden -- Dido, death, and exemplarity : public widowhood from Petrarch to Vittoria Colonna -- Widowed verse : Christine de Pizan, Vittoria Colonna, and Francesca Turina -- "Widowhood for its own sake" : widows in two dialogues of the counter reformation. |
| Abstract | "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth century-including Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Gambara, and Francesca Turina-and radically changed the conversation on public mourning. Engaging with broader intellectual discussions around gender, the history of emotions, the politics of mourning, and the construction of community, Widow City argues that widows served as key models demonstrating to readers not just how to mourn, but how to live well after devastating loss. At the same time, widows were figures of great anxiety: their status as unattached women, and the public performance of their grief, were viewed as very real threats to the stability of the social order. They are thus key to broader intellectual understandings of community and civic life in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024043280 |
| ISBN | 9781644533604 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781644533598 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |