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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Artisans of the body in early modern Italy - Head Work

by Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Rebecca Mortimer

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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 distant trades of jeweller, tailor, wigmaker and upholsterer. Drawing on contemporary understandings of the body, the author shows that shared concerns about health and well-being permeated the professional cultures of these medical and non-medical occupations. At the same time the detailed analysis of the life-course, career patterns and family experience of 'artisans of the body' offers unprecedented insight into the world of the urban middling sorts. The book will represent essential reading for scholars and students of gender, family and urban history in the early modern age, and will equally appeal to historians of the body and of the medical occupations. ;
Artisans of the body in early modern Italy

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Author Biography

Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London; Sandra Cavallo is Professor in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London; Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University; Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow

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