Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Download or read book Negotiating the Art of Fatherhood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy written by Juliann Vitullo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.